The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Ragged Head, sentence 2
He wore the long hair on the front of his head tied up in a bunch, and the ends hanging over were ragged and of different lengths.
Who acts: Head, ends · What happens: wear, tie up, hang over, be · To what, where: long hair, front, head, bunch
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 (Head, ends), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wore | nsubj |
| 2 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hair | det |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hair | amod |
| 5 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wore | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 front | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 front | det |
| 8 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wore | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 head | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 front | nmod |
| 12 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 head | acl |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 tied | compound:prt |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 bunch | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 bunch | det |
| 16 | bunch | bunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tied | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ragged | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 ragged | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ends | det |
| 20 | ends | end | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 ragged | nsubj |
| 21 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 ends | acl |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 hanging | obl |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 ragged | cop |
| 24 | ragged | ragged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 wore | parataxis |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 lengths | cc |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 lengths | case |
| 27 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 lengths | amod |
| 28 | lengths | length | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 ragged | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | Head | the long hair | the front of Head's head | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent hair=Source | |||
| 2 | tie up | participle | Head's head not said here | a bunch | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hang over | gerund | the ends not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the ends | different lengths conj; ragged property | 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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