The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 139

He repeated this a third and a fourth time, and the fourth time, when he got near the piles, the chips turned into buffaloes and rushed off over the prairie, and Nothing Child ran them towards the camp and drove them over the cliff into the piś kun, so that once more the camp was supplied with meat.

Who acts: man, chips, Nothing Child · What happens: repeat, get, turn, rush off, run, drive · To what, where: third, piles, buffaloes, prairie, chips, camp

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 (man, chips, Nothing Child), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 repeated	nsubj
2	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 third	det
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 third	det
5	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 repeated	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 time	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 time	det
8	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 third	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 time	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 time	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 time	det
13	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 time	amod
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 repeated	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 got	punct
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 got	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 got	nsubj
18	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 time	acl:relcl
19	near	near	ADP	_	21 piles	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 piles	det
21	piles	pile	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 got	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 turned	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 chips	det
24	chips	chip	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 turned	nsubj
25	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 piles	acl:relcl
26	into	into	ADP	_	27 buffaloes	case
27	buffaloes	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 turned	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 rushed	cc
29	rushed	rush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 turned	conj
30	off	off	ADP	_	29 rushed	compound:prt
31	over	over	ADP	_	33 prairie	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 prairie	det
33	prairie	prairie	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rushed	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 ran	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 ran	cc
36	Nothing	nothing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 Child	amod
37	Child	Child	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 ran	nsubj
38	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 got	conj
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 ran	obj
40	towards	towards	ADP	_	42 camp	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 camp	det
42	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 ran	obl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 drove	cc
44	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 got	conj
45	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 drove	obj
46	over	over	ADP	_	48 cliff	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 cliff	det
48	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 drove	obl
49	into	into	ADP	_	52 kun	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 kun	det
51	piś	piś	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 kun	compound
52	kun	kun	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 drove	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 supplied	punct
54	so	so	ADV	_	61 supplied	advmod
55	that	that	SCONJ	_	61 supplied	mark
56	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	57 more	advmod
57	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	59 camp	amod
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 camp	det
59	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 supplied	nsubj:pass
60	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 supplied	aux:pass
61	supplied	supply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 got	conj
62	with	with	ADP	_	63 meat	case
63	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 supplied	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 repeated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	repeat	past	man	this third and a fourth time		time		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent third=Eventuality
2	get	past	man		the piles			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	turn	past	the chips	the piles not said here	buffaloes			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent pile=Theme into buffalo=Trajectory
4	rush off	participle	the chips not said here		the prairie			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over prairie=Trajectory
5	run	past	Nothing Child	chips = chip	the camp			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme towards camp=Trajectory
6	drive	past	man not said here	chips = chip	the cliff		into the piś kun	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme over cliff=Destination into kun=Initial_Location
7	supply	past · passive		the more camp			with meat	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with meat=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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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 139