The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 159
He did so, and they lived together for some time, and now the elder daughter of the chief was sorry that she had not done as her father had told her to.
Who acts: husband, arrows, elder daughter, chief, father · What happens: do, live together, be, not do, tell · To what, where: chief · 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 (husband, arrows, elder daughter, chief), 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 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 2 did | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lived | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 lived | cc |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 lived | nsubj |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | conj |
| 8 | together | together | ADV | _ | 7 lived | advmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sorry | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sorry | cc |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 daughter | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 daughter | det |
| 16 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 daughter | amod |
| 17 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sorry | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 chief | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 chief | det |
| 20 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 daughter | nmod |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 sorry | cop |
| 22 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 did | parataxis |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 done | mark |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 done | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 done | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 done | advmod |
| 27 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 sorry | advcl |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 told | mark |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 father | nmod:poss |
| 30 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 told | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 told | aux |
| 32 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 done | advcl |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 told | iobj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 told | xcomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | husband | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | live together | past | arrows = arrow | time | together property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | the elder daughter of the chief | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not do | past · perfect | chief | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect | chief's father | chief | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
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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