The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 101
They took it into camp and to the chief’s lodge, and when he saw it he said that this was the wolf he wanted.
Who acts: children, wolf, this · What happens: take, see, say, be, want · To what, where: tail, camp, wolf · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (children, wolf, this), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 camp | case |
| 5 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lodge | cc |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 lodge | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 chief | det |
| 9 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lodge | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 chief | case |
| 11 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 camp | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 saw | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 said | advcl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | obj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | nsubj |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 wolf | mark |
| 21 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 wolf | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 wolf | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 wolf | det |
| 24 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | ccomp |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 wanted | nsubj |
| 26 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 wolf | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | children = child | tail | camp and the chief's lodge | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into camp=Destination | |||
| 2 | see | past | wolf | tail | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | wolf | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | this | the wolf | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | want | past | wolf | the wolf not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wolf=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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