The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Ragged Head, sentence 31
From their camp on the plains a party of Piegans set out on the war-path to cross the mountains and take horses from their enemies on the other side—Snakes, Flat Heads, or Nez Percés.
Who acts: party · What happens: set out, cross, take · To what, where: camp, mountains, horses, enemies
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 (party), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 camp | case |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 camp | nmod:poss |
| 3 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 plains | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 plains | det |
| 6 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 set | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 party | det |
| 8 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Piegans | case |
| 10 | Piegans | Piegan | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 party | nmod |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 set | compound:prt |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 path | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 path | det |
| 15 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 path | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 war | punct |
| 17 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 cross | mark |
| 19 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 set | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 mountains | det |
| 21 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 cross | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 take | cc |
| 23 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 set | conj |
| 24 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 take | obj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 enemies | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 enemies | nmod:poss |
| 27 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 take | obl |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 side | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 side | det |
| 30 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 side | amod |
| 31 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 take | obl |
| 32 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 Snakes | punct |
| 33 | Snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 side | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Heads | punct |
| 35 | Flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 Heads | amod |
| 36 | Heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 Snakes | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 Percés | punct |
| 38 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 40 Percés | cc |
| 39 | Nez | Nez | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Percés | compound |
| 40 | Percés | Percés | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Snakes | appos |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | a party of Piegans | streams's camp | on the plains; on the war path | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from camp=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | cross | to-infinitive | a party of Piegans not said here | the mountains | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Patient | ||||
| 3 | take | present | a party of Piegans not said here | horses | streams's enemies | on the other side and Snakes and Flat Heads | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme on side=Destination |
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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