The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 63
Then presently Plover Call heard something heavy fall by the doorway, and her husband entering, said: “Well, I got the deer for you.
Who acts: Plover, husband entering · What happens: hear, say, get, enter · To what, where: something, deer · 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 (Plover, husband entering), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 heard | advmod |
| 2 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 5 heard | advmod |
| 3 | Plover | Plover | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | Call | Call | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Plover | flat |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 heard | obj |
| 7 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fall | amod |
| 8 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 something | flat |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 doorway | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 doorway | det |
| 11 | doorway | doorway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 entering | nmod:poss |
| 15 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 entering | compound |
| 16 | entering | entering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 entering | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | conj |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 got | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 got | punct |
| 21 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 24 got | discourse |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Well | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 got | nsubj |
| 24 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | ccomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 deer | det |
| 26 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 got | obj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 you | case |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 got | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Plover | something | then | by the doorway; presently property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Plover's husband entering | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | get in a quote | past | Plover's husband entering = entering | the deer | for you | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent deer=Theme for you=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | enter | Plover | nom entering «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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