The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Ragged Head, sentence 10
Then his dream helper smoked with him.
What happens: smoke · To what, where: dream helper
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: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 helper | advmod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 helper | nmod:poss |
| 3 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 helper | compound |
| 4 | helper | helper | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | smoked | smoke | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 helper | acl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 smoked | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 helper | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smoke | participle | man's dream helper not said here | with man | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with he=Instrument |
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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