The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Ragged Head, sentence 1
Many years ago there was a Nez Percé Indian whose name was Ragged Head.
Who acts: Ragged Head, Nez Percé · What happens: be, name · To what, where: Ragged Head
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Ragged Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ragged Head, Nez Percé), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 years | amod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 was | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 2 years | advmod |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 Head | det |
| 7 | Nez | Nez | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Percé | compound |
| 8 | Percé | Percé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Head | nsubj |
| 9 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 name | amod |
| 10 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 11 name | nmod:poss |
| 11 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Head | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 Head | cop |
| 13 | Ragged | ragged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Head | amod |
| 14 | Head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a Ragged Head | there | year | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | past | Nez Percé | a Ragged Head | a Ragged Head's Indian name nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | name | a Ragged Head | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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