The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 180
This made Nothing Child angry, but he said nothing and waited.
Who acts: This, raven · What happens: make, say, wait · To what, where: Nothing Child, nothing · 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 (This, raven), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Nothing | Nothing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Child | compound |
| 4 | Child | Child | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 5 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 made | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | parataxis |
| 10 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 said | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 waited | cc |
| 12 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | This | Nothing Child | angry property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset child=Product | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | raven | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 3 | wait | past | raven not said here | vn exist-47.1 «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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