The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 174
And the fourth time he did this the piles of chips changed into real buffalo and started running.
Who acts: son, fourth time · What happens: do, change, start, run · To what, where: this, real buffalo
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, fourth time), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 changed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 changed | nsubj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 did | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | acl:relcl |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 did | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 piles | det |
| 9 | piles | pile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 changed | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 chips | case |
| 11 | chips | chip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 piles | nmod |
| 12 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 buffalo | case |
| 14 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 buffalo | amod |
| 15 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 changed | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 started | cc |
| 17 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 changed | conj |
| 18 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 started | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | son | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | change | participle | the fourth time | into real buffalo result; the piles of chips nsubj | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into buffalo=Result | ||||
| 3 | start | past | the fourth time not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | run | gerund | the fourth time not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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