The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 19
So while he was gone she scratched and bruised her face and tore her hair.
Who acts: boy, woman · What happens: be, scratch, bruise, tore · To what, where: face, hair
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 (boy, woman), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 gone | advmod |
| 2 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 gone | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | cop |
| 5 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 scratched | nsubj |
| 7 | scratched | scratch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | parataxis |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bruised | cc |
| 9 | bruised | bruise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 scratched | conj |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 face | nmod:poss |
| 11 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bruised | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 tore | cc |
| 13 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 scratched | conj |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hair | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tore | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | boy | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | scratch | past | woman | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bruise | past | woman not said here | woman's face | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient | ||||
| 4 | tore | past | woman not said here | woman's hair | 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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