The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Ragged Head, sentence 20
In the end of the club he had put a lash, and he used it also as a riding quirt.
Who acts: man · What happens: put, use · To what, where: lash, end
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 (man), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 club | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 club | det |
| 6 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 end | nmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 put | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 put | aux |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 lash | det |
| 11 | lash | lash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 used | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 used | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 used | nsubj |
| 15 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 put | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 used | obj |
| 17 | also | also | ADV | _ | 21 quirt | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 quirt | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 quirt | det |
| 20 | riding | riding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 quirt | compound |
| 21 | quirt | quirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 used | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past · perfect | man | a lash | in the end of the club | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lash=Theme in end=Destination | |||
| 2 | use | past | man | lash | as a riding quirt | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Duration as quirt=Attribute |
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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