The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Ragged Head, sentence 23
So he killed many of his enemies, and had great fame among his own people and among those against whom he fought.
Who acts: man · What happens: kill, have, fight · To what, where: many, great fame
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 killed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 killed | nsubj |
| 3 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 killed | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 enemies | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 enemies | nmod:poss |
| 7 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 many | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 had | cc |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 killed | conj |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fame | amod |
| 12 | fame | fame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 13 | among | among | ADP | _ | 16 people | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 people | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 people | amod |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 had | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 those | cc |
| 18 | among | among | ADP | _ | 19 those | case |
| 19 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 people | conj |
| 20 | against | against | ADP | _ | 21 whom | case |
| 21 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 those | nmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 fought | nsubj |
| 23 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 whom | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | man | many of man's enemies | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | man not said here | great fame | among man's own people among those against man's own people among those against own people | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fame=Patient | |||
| 3 | fight | past | man | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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