The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 110
They put on their finest clothing and left their father’s lodge and started for Nothing Child’s home.
Who acts: girls · What happens: put, leave, start · To what, where: finest clothing, lodge
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 (girls), 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 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 clothing | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 clothing | nmod:poss |
| 5 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 clothing | amod |
| 6 | clothing | clothing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 left | cc |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | conj |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lodge | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 father | case |
| 12 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 started | cc |
| 14 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 home | case |
| 16 | Nothing | nothing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Child | amod |
| 17 | Child | Child | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 home | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 Child | case |
| 19 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 started | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | girls = girl | girls's finest clothing | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on clothing=Destination | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | girls = girl not said here | girls's father's lodge | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lodge=Theme | ||||
| 3 | start | past | girls = girl not said here | for Nothing Child's home | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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