The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Ragged Head, sentence 21
Every summer Ragged Head used to cross the mountains from his country to the plains, to hunt buffalo and to make war on the Piegans.
Who acts: summer Ragged Head · What happens: use, cross, hunt, make · To what, where: mountains, plains, country, buffalo, war, Piegans
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 (summer Ragged Head), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 Head | det |
| 2 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Head | compound |
| 3 | Ragged | ragged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Head | amod |
| 4 | Head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 used | nsubj |
| 5 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 cross | mark |
| 7 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 used | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mountains | det |
| 9 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cross | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 country | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 country | nmod:poss |
| 12 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cross | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 plains | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 plains | det |
| 15 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cross | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hunt | punct |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 hunt | mark |
| 18 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cross | conj |
| 19 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hunt | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 make | cc |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 make | mark |
| 22 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 hunt | conj |
| 23 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 make | obj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 Piegans | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Piegans | det |
| 26 | Piegans | Piegan | PROPN | Number=Plur | 22 make | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | participle | every summer Ragged Head | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | cross | to-infinitive | every summer Ragged Head not said here | the mountains | the plains | man's country | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent mountain=Patient to plain=Recipient | ||
| 3 | hunt | to-infinitive | every summer Ragged Head not said here | buffalo | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buffalo=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | every summer Ragged Head not said here | war | the Piegans | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset war=Product |
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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