The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 70

After the evening meal was over her father came in, and the two men talked for a long time about hunting and war, and her husband told interesting stories about his people.

Who acts: evening meal, two men, husband · What happens: be, come in, talk, tell · To what, where: interesting stories · 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 (evening meal, two men, husband), 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	After	after	ADP	_	8 father	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 meal	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 meal	compound
4	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 father	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 father	cop
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 father	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 father	nmod:poss
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	in	in	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 talked	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 talked	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 men	det
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 men	nummod
15	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 talked	nsubj
16	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
17	for	for	ADP	_	20 time	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 time	det
19	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 time	amod
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 talked	obl
21	about	about	ADP	_	22 hunting	case
22	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 time	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 war	cc
24	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hunting	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 told	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 told	cc
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 husband	nmod:poss
28	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 told	nsubj
29	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
30	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 stories	amod
31	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 told	obj
32	about	about	ADP	_	34 people	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 people	nmod:poss
34	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 stories	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the evening meal		after woman's father	woman nmod:poss	tree rules
2	come in	past					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	talk	past	the two men		time		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	past	woman's husband	interesting stories		about husband's people	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent story=Recipient about people=Topic

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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Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 70