The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 88
She was glad of it, and so were her parents, for they all feared his terrible, mysterious ways.
Who acts: Call, moons · What happens: be, fear · To what, where: parents, terrible mysterious ways
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 (Call, moons), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 glad | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 glad | cop |
| 3 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 glad | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 parents | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 parents | cc |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 parents | advmod |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 parents | cop |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 parents | nmod:poss |
| 11 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 glad | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 feared | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 feared | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 feared | nsubj |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 feared | advmod |
| 16 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 glad | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 ways | nmod:poss |
| 18 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ways | amod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 terrible | punct |
| 20 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ways | amod |
| 21 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 feared | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Call | of valley; glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Call not said here | Call's parents | Call nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | fear | past | moons = moon | husband's terrible mysterious ways | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus |
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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