The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 163
The woman did as he had told her, and brought in the bushes and threw them down on the floor of the lodge.
Who acts: woman, husband · What happens: do, tell, bring, throw down · To what, where: woman, bushes, berries, floor · 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, husband), 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 woman | det |
| 2 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 told | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 told | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | aux |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 did | advcl |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 told | iobj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 brought | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 brought | cc |
| 11 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 told | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 bushes | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bushes | det |
| 14 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 brought | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 threw | cc |
| 16 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 threw | obj |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 threw | compound:prt |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 floor | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 floor | det |
| 21 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 threw | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 lodge | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 lodge | det |
| 24 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 floor | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the woman | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect | husband | woman | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | bring | participle | husband not said here | the bushes | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | throw down | past | the woman not said here | berries = berry | the floor of the lodge | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme on floor=Destination |
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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