The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 156
Also her husband, who, when she last saw him, was a small boy and rather ugly, was now a big, fine-looking man.
Who acts: husband, small boy · What happens: see, be, look · To what, where: husband, small boy, big looking man
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 (husband, small boy), 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 | Also | also | ADV | _ | 16 boy | advmod |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 husband | nmod:poss |
| 3 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 boy | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 saw | advmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | last | last | ADV | _ | 10 saw | advmod |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 husband | acl:relcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 husband | punct |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 boy | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 boy | det |
| 15 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 boy | amod |
| 16 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 man | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 ugly | cc |
| 18 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 19 ugly | advmod |
| 19 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 boy | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 boy | punct |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 man | cop |
| 22 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 man | advmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 man | det |
| 24 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 man | amod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 big | punct |
| 26 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 looking | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 fine | punct |
| 28 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 man | amod |
| 29 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | woman's husband | husband | woman nsubj; last property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is a | past | woman's husband | a small boy | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | woman's husband not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 5 | is a | past | a small boy | a big looking man | now | tree rules |
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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