The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 130
The young men scouted far and near over the prairie, but could find no buffalo.
Who acts: young men · What happens: scout, find · To what, where: young men, prairie, buffalo
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 men | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 men | amod |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 find | nsubj |
| 4 | scouted | scout | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 men | acl |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 scouted | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 near | cc |
| 7 | near | near | ADV | _ | 5 far | conj |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 prairie | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prairie | det |
| 10 | prairie | prairie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scouted | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 find | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 find | cc |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 find | aux |
| 14 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 buffalo | det |
| 16 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 find | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scout | participle | the young men not said here | the prairie | far property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over prairie=Location | |||
| 2 | find | could | the young men | no buffalo | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buffalo=Topic |
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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