The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Ragged Head, sentence 18
His weapon was a great war-club, made from the butt of an elk antler.
Who acts: weapon · What happens: be, make · To what, where: great war club, butt
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 (weapon), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 weapon | nmod:poss |
| 2 | weapon | weapon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 club | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 club | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 club | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 club | amod |
| 6 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 club | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 war | punct |
| 8 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 club | acl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 butt | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 butt | det |
| 13 | butt | butt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 antler | case |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 antler | det |
| 16 | elk | elk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 antler | compound |
| 17 | antler | antler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 butt | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 club | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | man's weapon | a great war club | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | a great war club not said here | the butt of a elk antler | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from butt=Material |
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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