The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 6
When the last of the buffalo had gone, a great hunter named Low Wolf thought that it was also time for him to move.
Who acts: last, great hunter, hunter · What happens: go, name, think, be, move · To what, where: great hunter, time · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last, great hunter, hunter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 gone | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 last | det |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 gone | nsubj:outer |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 buffalo | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 buffalo | det |
| 6 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 last | obl |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gone | aux |
| 8 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 thought | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 gone | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hunter | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hunter | amod |
| 12 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thought | nsubj |
| 13 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 hunter | acl |
| 14 | Low | Low | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Wolf | compound |
| 15 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 named | xcomp |
| 16 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 time | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 time | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 time | cop |
| 20 | also | also | ADV | _ | 21 time | advmod |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thought | ccomp |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 time | nmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 move | mark |
| 25 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 time | acl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | the last of the buffalo | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | name | participle | a great hunter not said here | Low Wolf xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | a great hunter | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | hunter | time | for Wolf | tree rules | |||
| 5 | move | to-infinitive | a great hunter not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Project Gutenberg book 66596 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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