The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 60
Moreover, the young man was not to be seen in any direction, although he had gone but a moment before.
Who acts: man · What happens: not see, go · To what, where: young man, direction
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 (man), 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 | Moreover | moreover | ADV | _ | 10 seen | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Moreover | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seen | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seen | aux:pass |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 seen | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 seen | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 seen | aux:pass |
| 10 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 direction | case |
| 12 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 direction | det |
| 13 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seen | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gone | punct |
| 15 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 18 gone | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gone | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 gone | aux |
| 18 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 seen | conj |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 moment | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 moment | det |
| 21 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gone | conj |
| 22 | before | before | ADV | _ | 18 gone | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | past · passive | the young man | any direction | moreover property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | go | past · perfect | man | before property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP 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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