The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 177
His wife met him at the cliff, and he told her that this white buffalo was hers.
Who acts: wife, son, white buffalo · What happens: meet, tell, be · To what, where: son, cliff, chief · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (wife, son, white buffalo), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 met | nsubj |
| 3 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 met | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 cliff | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cliff | det |
| 7 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 met | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 told | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 told | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 told | nsubj |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 met | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 told | iobj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 hers | mark |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 buffalo | det |
| 15 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 buffalo | amod |
| 16 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hers | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 hers | cop |
| 18 | hers | her | PRON | Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 told | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | son's wife | son | the cliff | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | son | chief | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | this white buffalo | chief | 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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