The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 150
When he had eaten all these things they had been old, but now they were new and white, and finely ornamented.
Who acts: piece, things · What happens: eat, be, ornament · To what, where: things
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 (piece, things), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 eaten | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 eaten | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 eaten | aux |
| 4 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 things | det:predet |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 things | det |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 eaten | obj |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 old | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 old | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 old | cop |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 things | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 new | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 new | cc |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 new | advmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 new | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 new | cop |
| 17 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 eaten | advcl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 white | cc |
| 19 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 new | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ornamented | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 ornamented | cc |
| 22 | finely | finely | ADV | _ | 23 ornamented | advmod |
| 23 | ornamented | ornament | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 eaten | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 eaten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · perfect | piece | all things | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | things = thing | all things not said here | old property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | past | things = thing | now | new property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | be | things = thing not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | ornament | participle | piece not said here | finely property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
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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