The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 69
While he was eating she skinned the animal, cut it into quarters, and hung it out on a near-by bush.
Who acts: husband, woman · What happens: eat, skin, cut, hang out · To what, where: animal, quarters, near bush
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 (husband, 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 eating | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 eating | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 eating | aux |
| 4 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 skinned | advcl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 skinned | nsubj |
| 6 | skinned | skin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 animal | det |
| 8 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 skinned | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cut | punct |
| 10 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 skinned | advcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cut | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 quarters | case |
| 13 | quarters | quarter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cut | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hung | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hung | cc |
| 16 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 skinned | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hung | obj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 hung | compound:prt |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 bush | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 bush | det |
| 21 | near | near | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 bush | amod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 bush | punct |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 bush | case |
| 24 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hung | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 skinned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · progressive | husband | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | skin | past | woman | the animal | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer animal=Patient | ||||
| 3 | cut | infinitive | woman not said here | animal | quarters | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent it=Material into quarter=Product | |||
| 4 | hang out | past | woman not said here | animal | a near bush | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on bush=Destination |
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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