The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 175
And Nothing Child ran the herd over the cliff, as he had done before, and again the camp was supplied with meat.
Who acts: Nothing Child, son · What happens: run, do, supply · To what, where: herd, cliff, camp
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, son), 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 | _ | 4 ran | cc |
| 2 | Nothing | nothing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Child | amod |
| 3 | Child | Child | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 herd | det |
| 6 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | obj |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 cliff | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cliff | det |
| 9 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 done | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 done | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 done | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 done | aux |
| 14 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 ran | conj |
| 15 | before | before | ADV | _ | 14 done | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 supplied | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 supplied | cc |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 22 supplied | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 camp | det |
| 20 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 supplied | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 supplied | aux:pass |
| 22 | supplied | supply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 ran | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 meat | case |
| 24 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 supplied | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Nothing Child | the herd | the cliff | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent herd=Theme over cliff=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | do | past · perfect | son | before property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | supply | past · passive | the camp | again | with meat | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with meat=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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