The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 172
He made ready for his journey and started, travelling a long way looking for the buffalo, but he found none.
Who acts: son, long way · What happens: make, start, travel, look, find, journey · To what, where: long way, none
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 (son, long way), 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 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 made | xcomp |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 journey | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 journey | nmod:poss |
| 6 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ready | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 started | cc |
| 8 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 travelling | punct |
| 10 | travelling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 started | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 way | det |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 way | amod |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 travelling | obj |
| 14 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 way | acl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 buffalo | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 buffalo | det |
| 17 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 looking | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 found | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 found | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 found | nsubj |
| 21 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | parataxis |
| 22 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 21 found | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | son | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | start | past | son not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | travel | gerund | son not said here | a long way | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | look | gerund | a long way not said here | for the buffalo | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for buffalo=Theme | ||||
| 5 | find | past | son | none | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Topic | ||||
| 6 | journey | son | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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