The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Ragged Head, sentence 59
In his body was the splintered ramrod.
What happens: splinter, be · To what, where: splintered ramrod, body
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 body | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 body | nmod:poss |
| 3 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ramrod | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ramrod | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ramrod | det |
| 6 | splintered | splinter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 ramrod | amod |
| 7 | ramrod | ramrod | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ramrod | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | splinter | participle | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | the splintered ramrod | Percés's body | tree rules |
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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