The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 89
One evening the young woman was again chopping wood by the river, and, again looking up, she saw a man standing near her, wearing his robe hair side out.
Who acts: young woman, woman, man · What happens: chop, look up, see, stand, wear · To what, where: wood, man, hair side
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 (young woman, woman, man), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 evening | nummod |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chopping | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | amod |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chopping | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 chopping | aux |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 chopping | advmod |
| 8 | chopping | chop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chopping | obj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 river | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 river | det |
| 12 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chopping | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 looking | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 looking | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 looking | punct |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 looking | advmod |
| 17 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 chopping | parataxis |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 looking | compound:prt |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 saw | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 saw | nsubj |
| 21 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 looking | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 saw | obj |
| 24 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 man | acl |
| 25 | near | near | ADP | _ | 26 her | case |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 standing | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 wearing | punct |
| 28 | wearing | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 standing | conj |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 side | nmod:poss |
| 30 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 hair | compound |
| 31 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 side | compound |
| 32 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wearing | obj |
| 33 | out | out | ADV | _ | 28 wearing | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 chopping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chop | past · progressive | the young woman | wood | again; evening | by the river | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wood=Patient by river=Location | ||
| 2 | look up | gerund | again | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | see | past | woman | a man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | stand | gerund | a man not said here | near woman | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near she=Location | ||||
| 5 | wear | gerund | a man not said here | husband's hair side | out property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent side=Source |
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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