The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Ragged Head, sentence 39
The tube which had held the ramrod in its place had been broken off, and there was no way to carry the rod except in the barrel of the gun.
Who acts: way · What happens: hold, break off, be, carry · To what, where: tube, rod
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 (way), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 tube | det |
| 2 | tube | tube | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 held | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 held | aux |
| 5 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 tube | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ramrod | det |
| 7 | ramrod | ramrod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 held | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 place | case |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 place | nmod:poss |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ramrod | nmod |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 broken | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 broken | aux:pass |
| 13 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 broken | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 was | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 was | cc |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 was | expl |
| 18 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 broken | parataxis |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 way | det |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 was | nsubj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 carry | mark |
| 22 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 way | acl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 rod | det |
| 24 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 carry | obj |
| 25 | except | except | ADP | _ | 28 barrel | case |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 barrel | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 barrel | det |
| 28 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 carry | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 gun | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 gun | det |
| 31 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 barrel | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 broken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past · perfect · passive | the tube | the ramrod obj | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme ramrod=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | break off | past · perfect · passive | the tube | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | be | past | no way | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | carry | to-infinitive | no way not said here | the rod | except the barrel of the gun | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rod=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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