The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 176
In this herd was one white buffalo.
What happens: be · To what, where: one white buffalo, herd
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 herd | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 herd | det |
| 3 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 buffalo | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 buffalo | cop |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 buffalo | nummod |
| 6 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 buffalo | amod |
| 7 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 buffalo | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | one white buffalo | this herd | tree rules |
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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