The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Ragged Head, sentence 34
While they were stopping here, overlooking the country, the leader of the war-party said to his young men:
Who acts: streams, leader · What happens: stop, overlook, say · To what, where: country, young men · 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 (streams, leader), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 stopping | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stopping | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stopping | aux |
| 4 | stopping | stop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 said | advcl |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 stopping | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 overlooking | punct |
| 7 | overlooking | overlook | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 stopping | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 country | det |
| 9 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 overlooking | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stopping | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 leader | det |
| 12 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 party | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 party | det |
| 15 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 party | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 war | punct |
| 17 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leader | nmod |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 men | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 men | nmod:poss |
| 21 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 men | amod |
| 22 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 said | obl |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past · progressive | streams = stream | here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | overlook | gerund | streams = stream not said here | the country | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the leader of the war party | leader's young men | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient |
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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