The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 68
The young woman went back to her lodge, cut some meat from the deer, and cooked it for her husband.
Who acts: young woman · What happens: go back, cut, cook · To what, where: meat, deer
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 (young woman), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 lodge | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 lodge | nmod:poss |
| 8 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cut | punct |
| 10 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | parataxis |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 meat | det |
| 12 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cut | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 deer | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 deer | det |
| 15 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cut | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cooked | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 cooked | cc |
| 18 | cooked | cook | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | parataxis |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 cooked | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 husband | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 husband | nmod:poss |
| 22 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cooked | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | the young woman | to woman's lodge result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to lodge=Result | ||||
| 2 | cut | infinitive | some meat | the deer | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset meat=Product from deer=Material | ||||
| 3 | cook | past | deer | for woman's husband | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Material for husband=Beneficiary |
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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