The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Ragged Head, sentence 47
The people were sleeping; it was all quiet, and in front of the lodges were tied many fine horses.
Who acts: people, camp · What happens: sleep, be, tie · To what, where: many fine horses, front
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 (people, camp), 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 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sleeping | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sleeping | aux |
| 4 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 quiet | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 quiet | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 quiet | cop |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 quiet | advmod |
| 9 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sleeping | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tied | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 tied | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 front | case |
| 13 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tied | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 lodges | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lodges | det |
| 16 | lodges | lodge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 front | nmod |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 tied | aux:pass |
| 18 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 quiet | conj |
| 19 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 horses | amod |
| 20 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 horses | amod |
| 21 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 tied | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sleeping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past · progressive | the people | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | camp | quiet property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tie | past · passive | camp not said here | many fine horses | front of the lodges | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: horse=Patient |
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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