The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 164
Then Nothing Child took a tanned elk-skin and covered the bushes with it.
Who acts: Nothing Child · What happens: take, tan, cover · To what, where: tanned elk skin, bushes
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 (Nothing Child), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | Nothing | nothing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Child | amod |
| 3 | Child | Child | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 skin | det |
| 6 | tanned | tan | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 skin | amod |
| 7 | elk | elk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 skin | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 elk | punct |
| 9 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 covered | cc |
| 11 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bushes | det |
| 13 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 covered | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 covered | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Nothing Child | a tanned elk skin | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme | |||
| 2 | tan | participle | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | cover | past | Nothing Child not said here | the bushes | with skin | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent bush=Destination with it=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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