The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 102
Now all the young men in the camp were jealous of the Nothing Child, for it was certain that he would get the chief’s daughters for his wives.
Who acts: young men, camp, man · What happens: be, get · To what, where: daughters
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 men, camp, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 jealous | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 men | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 men | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 men | amod |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 jealous | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 camp | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 camp | det |
| 8 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 men | nmod |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 jealous | cop |
| 10 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Child | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Child | det |
| 13 | Nothing | Nothing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Child | compound |
| 14 | Child | Child | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 jealous | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 certain | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 certain | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 certain | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 certain | cop |
| 19 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 jealous | conj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 get | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 get | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 get | aux |
| 23 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 certain | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 chief | det |
| 25 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 chief | case |
| 27 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 get | obj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 wives | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 wives | nmod:poss |
| 30 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 get | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 jealous | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | all young men in the camp | now | of the Nothing Child; jealous property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | camp | certain property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get | would | man | the chief's daughters | for man's wives | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme for wife=Beneficiary |
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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