The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 170
The hunters had been out and had travelled far over the prairie, but they could see nothing.
Who acts: hunters · What happens: travell, see · To what, where: hunters, prairie, nothing
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 (hunters), 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 hunters | det |
| 2 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 travelled | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 travelled | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 travelled | aux:pass |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 been | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 travelled | cc |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 travelled | aux |
| 8 | travelled | travell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 travelled | advmod |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 prairie | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 prairie | det |
| 12 | prairie | prairie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 travelled | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 see | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 see | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | aux |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 travelled | parataxis |
| 18 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 see | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 travelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travell | past · perfect · passive | the hunters | the prairie | far property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | see | could | hunters = hunter | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
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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