The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Ragged Head, sentence 35
“Now, here we will separate and go off in small parties to see what we can discover, and after ten nights we will all meet again at the Round Butte at the foot of this mountain, and return to our camp together.”
Who acts: we · What happens: separate, go off, see, discover, meet, return · To what, where: small parties, Round Butte · 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 (we), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 separate | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 here | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 separate | advmod |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 separate | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 separate | aux |
| 7 | separate | separate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 go | cc |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 separate | conj |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 go | compound:prt |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 parties | case |
| 12 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 parties | amod |
| 13 | parties | party | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 go | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 see | mark |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 go | advcl |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 discover | obj |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 discover | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 discover | aux |
| 19 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 see | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 meet | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 meet | cc |
| 22 | after | after | ADP | _ | 24 nights | case |
| 23 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 nights | nummod |
| 24 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 meet | obl |
| 25 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 meet | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 meet | aux |
| 27 | all | all | ADV | _ | 28 meet | advmod |
| 28 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 separate | conj |
| 29 | again | again | ADV | _ | 28 meet | advmod |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 Butte | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Butte | det |
| 32 | Round | Round | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Butte | compound |
| 33 | Butte | Butte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 meet | obl |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 foot | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 foot | det |
| 36 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 meet | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 mountain | case |
| 38 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 mountain | det |
| 39 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 foot | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 return | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 return | cc |
| 42 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 separate | conj |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 camp | case |
| 44 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 camp | nmod:poss |
| 45 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 return | obl |
| 46 | together | together | ADV | _ | 42 return | advmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 separate | punct |
| 48 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 separate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | separate in a quote | future | we | here | now | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | go off in a quote | infinitive | we not said here | small parties | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in party=Location | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | discover in a quote | can | we | what obj | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ||||
| 5 | meet in a quote | future | we | the Round Butte | again; night | at the foot of this mountain; all property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 6 | return in a quote | infinitive | we not said here | to our camp result; together property | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to camp=Result |
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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