The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 119
So the elder girl went her way to Raven Arrow, but the younger kept on towards Nothing Child’s lodge.
Who acts: elder girl · What happens: go, keep · To what, where: way, Raven Arrow, 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 (elder girl), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 3 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 girl | amod |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 way | nmod:poss |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Arrow | case |
| 9 | Raven | Raven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Arrow | compound |
| 10 | Arrow | Arrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 kept | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 kept | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 younger | det |
| 14 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 kept | advcl |
| 15 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 went | parataxis |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 lodge | case |
| 17 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 21 lodge | case |
| 18 | Nothing | nothing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Child | amod |
| 19 | Child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lodge | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 Child | case |
| 21 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kept | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the elder girl | chief's way | Raven Arrow | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | |||
| 2 | keep | participle | Nothing Child's lodge | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on lodge=Location |
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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