The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 18
The woman was angry at the boy because he took no notice of her, and she made up her mind that she would be revenged on him.
Who acts: woman, boy · What happens: be, take, make up, revenge, notice, mind · To what, where: notice, mind, woman
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 (woman, boy), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 woman | det |
| 2 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 angry | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 angry | cop |
| 4 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 boy | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boy | det |
| 7 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 angry | obl |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 took | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 took | nsubj |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 angry | advcl |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 notice | det |
| 12 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 notice | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 made | cc |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 made | nsubj |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 took | conj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 made | compound:prt |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mind | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 revenged | mark |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 revenged | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 revenged | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 revenged | aux:pass |
| 26 | revenged | revenge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 made | advcl |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 revenged | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the woman | at the boy; angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | boy | no notice of woman | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make up | past | woman | woman's mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | revenge | would · passive | woman | on boy | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | notice | woman | nom notice «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | mind | woman | nom mind «cognition 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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