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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 91

At first she was sure it was her husband, but as he lowered his robe she saw that he was dark-faced and black-haired like herself.

Who acts: woman, river, husband · What happens: be, lower, see · To what, where: husband, robe

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, 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

caseoblnsubjcopnsubjcopnmod:possccomppunctccmarknsubjadvclnmod:possobjnsubjconjmarknsubjcopamodpunctadvclccamodpunctconjcaseoblpunctrootAtADPfirstADVshePRONwasAUXsureADJitPRONwasAUXherPRONhusbandNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJasSCONJhePRONloweredVERBhisPRONrobeNOUNshePRONsawVERBthatSCONJhePRONwasAUXdarkADJ-PUNCTfacedADJandCCONJblackADJ-PUNCThairedADJlikeADPherselfPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AtatADP_2 firstcase
2firstfirstADVNumForm=Word NumType=Ord5 sureobl
3sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 surensubj
4wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 surecop
5suresureADJDegree=Posrootroot
6ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 husbandnsubj
7wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 husbandcop
8herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs9 husbandnmod:poss
9husbandhusbandNOUNNumber=Sing5 sureccomp
10,,PUNCT_18 sawpunct
11butbutCCONJ_18 sawcc
12asasSCONJ_14 loweredmark
13hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 lowerednsubj
14loweredlowerVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 sawadvcl
15hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs16 robenmod:poss
16roberobeNOUNNumber=Sing14 loweredobj
17sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 sawnsubj
18sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 sureconj
19thatthatSCONJ_24 facedmark
20hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 facednsubj
21wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 facedcop
22darkdarkADJDegree=Pos24 facedamod
23--PUNCT_22 darkpunct
24facedfacedADJDegree=Pos18 sawadvcl
25andandCCONJ_28 hairedcc
26blackblackADJDegree=Pos28 hairedamod
27--PUNCT_26 blackpunct
28hairedhairedADJDegree=Pos24 facedconj
29likelikeADP_30 herselfcase
30herselfherselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes28 hairedobl
31..PUNCT_5 surepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispastwomansure propertytree rules
2is apastriverwoman's husbandwoman nmod:posstree rules
3lowerpasthusbandhusband's robevn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robe=Theme
4seepastwomanvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5ispasthusbandfaced propertytree rules
6behusband not said herelike womantree 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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