The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 73
The following morning Plover Call’s husband again started out with his bow and arrows, and, as before, as soon as he left it thundered for a long time.
Who acts: husband · What happens: follow, start out, leave, thunder · To what, where: fall
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), 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 morning | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 started | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | Plover | Plover | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 husband | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Call | Call | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Plover | flat |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Plover | case |
| 7 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 morning | appos |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 started | advmod |
| 9 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 started | compound:prt |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 bow | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 bow | nmod:poss |
| 13 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 started | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 arrows | cc |
| 15 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 bow | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 thundered | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 thundered | cc |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 and | punct |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 before | case |
| 20 | before | before | ADV | _ | 28 thundered | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 before | punct |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | _ | 23 soon | advmod |
| 23 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 thundered | advmod |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 left | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 left | nsubj |
| 26 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 soon | advcl |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 left | obj |
| 28 | thundered | thunder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 started | conj |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 time | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 time | det |
| 31 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 time | amod |
| 32 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 thundered | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | start out | past | again; morning | with husband's bow and arrows | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with bow=Subeventuality | ||||
| 3 | leave | past | husband | fall | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | thunder | past | time | soon property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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