The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 151
The lodge was painted, the woman’s clothing was beautifully worked with porcupine quills; there was a new full set of war clothing for himself—all very fine.
Who acts: new full set · What happens: paint, work, be · To what, where: lodge, clothing
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 (new full set), 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 | 2 lodge | det |
| 2 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 painted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 painted | aux:pass |
| 4 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 worked | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 clothing | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 woman | case |
| 9 | clothing | clothing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 worked | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 worked | aux:pass |
| 11 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 12 worked | advmod |
| 12 | worked | work | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 painted | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 quills | case |
| 14 | porcupine | porcupine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 quills | compound |
| 15 | quills | quill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 worked | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 was | punct |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 was | expl |
| 18 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 painted | parataxis |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 set | det |
| 20 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 set | amod |
| 21 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 set | amod |
| 22 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 was | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 clothing | case |
| 24 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 clothing | compound |
| 25 | clothing | clothing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 set | nmod |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 himself | case |
| 27 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 clothing | nmod |
| 28 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 fine | punct |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 fine | nsubj |
| 30 | very | very | ADV | _ | 31 fine | advmod |
| 31 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 painted | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 painted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | past · passive | the lodge | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 2 | work | past · passive | the woman's clothing | with porcupine quills; beautifully property | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material | ||||
| 3 | be | past | a new full set of war clothing for set | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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