The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 1
A long time ago there lived in the Blackfoot camp a young man who did not like company.
Who acts: young man · What happens: live, camp, not like · To what, where: young man, Blackfoot, company
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Nothing Child. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 3 time | advmod |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 lived | advmod |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Blackfoot | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Blackfoot | det |
| 9 | Blackfoot | Blackfoot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 camp | obl |
| 10 | camp | camp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lived | ccomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 camp | obj |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 like | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 like | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 like | advmod |
| 17 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 man | acl:relcl |
| 18 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 like | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | there | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | camp | present | a young man | the Blackfoot | vn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent man=Theme in blackfoot=Location | ||||
| 3 | not like | past · do-support | a young man | company | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot company=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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