The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 82
Four times the strange husband went hunting, always disappearing at the lodge door in his mysterious way, always accompanied by thunder, going and coming, never leaving any footprints beyond the lodge.
Who acts: strange husband · What happens: go, hunt, disappear, accompany, come, not leave · To what, where: lodge door, mysterious way, footprints, lodge
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 (strange 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 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 times | nummod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 husband | det |
| 4 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 husband | amod |
| 5 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | hunting | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 went | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 disappearing | punct |
| 9 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 10 disappearing | advmod |
| 10 | disappearing | disappear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 hunting | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 door | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 door | det |
| 13 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 door | compound |
| 14 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 disappearing | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 way | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 way | nmod:poss |
| 17 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 way | amod |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 disappearing | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 accompanied | punct |
| 20 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 21 accompanied | advmod |
| 21 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 way | acl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 thunder | case |
| 23 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 accompanied | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 going | punct |
| 25 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 hunting | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 coming | cc |
| 27 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 going | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 leaving | punct |
| 29 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 30 leaving | advmod |
| 30 | leaving | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 hunting | conj |
| 31 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 32 footprints | det |
| 32 | footprints | footprint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 leaving | obj |
| 33 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 35 lodge | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 lodge | det |
| 35 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 leaving | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the strange husband | time | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hunt | gerund | the strange husband not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | disappear | gerund | the strange husband not said here | the lodge door | in husband's mysterious way; always property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | accompany | participle | husband's mysterious way not said here | by thunder; always property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by thunder=Destination | ||||
| 5 | go | gerund | the strange husband not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | come | gerund | the strange husband not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | not leave | gerund | the strange husband not said here | any footprints | the lodge | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent footprint=Theme beyond lodge=Location |
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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