The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 90
Again she thought it was her father, but when she addressed him he turned around, and she saw it was a stranger.
Who acts: woman, river, father · What happens: think, be, address, turn around, see · To what, where: father, stranger · 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 (woman, river, father), 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 3 thought | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 father | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 father | cop |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 father | nmod:poss |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 turned | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 turned | cc |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 addressed | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 addressed | nsubj |
| 12 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 turned | advcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 addressed | obj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 turned | nsubj |
| 15 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 16 | around | around | ADV | _ | 15 turned | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 saw | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 saw | cc |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 stranger | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 stranger | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 stranger | det |
| 24 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 saw | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | woman | again | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | river | woman's father | woman nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | address | past | woman | father | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination | ||||
| 4 | turn around | past | father | around property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | see | past | woman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is a | past | river | a stranger | tree rules |
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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