The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 14
Pretty soon she asked him again, and then a third time, and when she called him the fourth time he got up and went outside and killed the bird and gave it to her, and then went into the lodge again and kept on working at his arrows.
Who acts: woman, brother · What happens: ask, call, get up, go, kill, give · To what, where: brother, fourth time, bird, woman, lodge · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (woman, brother), 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 | Pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 asked | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 asked | iobj |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 asked | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 time | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 time | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 time | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 11 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 time | amod |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 called | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 called | cc |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 called | advmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 called | nsubj |
| 17 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 asked | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 called | obj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 time | det |
| 20 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 time | amod |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 called | xcomp |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 got | nsubj |
| 23 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 time | acl:relcl |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 got | compound:prt |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 went | cc |
| 26 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 asked | conj |
| 27 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 26 went | advmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 killed | cc |
| 29 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 went | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 bird | det |
| 31 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 killed | obj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 gave | cc |
| 33 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 went | conj |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 gave | obj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 her | case |
| 36 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 gave | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 went | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 went | cc |
| 39 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 40 went | advmod |
| 40 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 asked | parataxis |
| 41 | into | into | ADP | _ | 43 lodge | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 lodge | det |
| 43 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 went | obl |
| 44 | again | again | ADV | _ | 40 went | advmod |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 kept | cc |
| 46 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 went | conj |
| 47 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 48 working | mark |
| 48 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 46 kept | advcl |
| 49 | at | at | ADP | _ | 51 arrows | case |
| 50 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 arrows | nmod:poss |
| 51 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 working | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | woman | brother | again; time | soon property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||
| 2 | call | past | woman | brother | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | get up | past | brother | the fourth time not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer time=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | go | past | woman not said here | outside property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | kill | past | woman not said here | the bird | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme | ||||
| 6 | give | past | woman not said here | bird | woman | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to she=Recipient | |||
| 7 | go | past | the lodge | then; again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into lodge=Initial_Location | ||||
| 8 | keep | participle | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 9 | work | gerund | at brother's arrows | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at arrow=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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