The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Ragged Head, sentence 25
Everybody was afraid of him, for all people knew that he had strong spiritual power, and that he could not be killed.
Who acts: Everybody, people, man · What happens: be, know, have, not kill · To what, where: strong spiritual power, man · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Everybody, people, 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 | Everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 afraid | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 afraid | cop |
| 3 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 afraid | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 knew | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 knew | mark |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 people | det |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 knew | nsubj |
| 10 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 afraid | parataxis |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 had | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 knew | ccomp |
| 14 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 power | amod |
| 15 | spiritual | spiritual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 power | amod |
| 16 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 killed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 killed | cc |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 killed | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 killed | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 killed | advmod |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 killed | aux:pass |
| 24 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 knew | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Everybody | of man; afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | past | all people | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | have | past | man | strong spiritual power | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not kill | could · passive | man | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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