The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Ragged Head, sentence 8
You may rush into the very midst of the enemy, and they will all run away from you.
Who acts: You, arrow · What happens: rush, run away · To what, where: midst
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 (You, arrow), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 rush | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 rush | aux |
| 3 | rush | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 midst | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 midst | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 midst | advmod |
| 7 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rush | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 enemy | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 enemy | det |
| 10 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 midst | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 run | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 run | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 run | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 run | aux |
| 15 | all | all | ADV | _ | 16 run | advmod |
| 16 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 rush | conj |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 run | advmod |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 run | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rush | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | may | You | into the midst of the enemy result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into midst=Result | ||||
| 2 | run away | future | arrow | from you; all, away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from you=Trajectory |
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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