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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 20

At night her husband came home, and when he looked at his wife he saw that her face was scratched and swollen and her hair all pulled about.

Who acts: husband, hair · What happens: come, look, see, scratch, pull about · To what, where: wife, face

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 (husband, hair), 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

caseoblnmod:possnsubjadvmodpunctccadvmodnsubjconjcasenmod:possoblnsubjacl:relclmarknmod:possnsubj:passaux:passxcompccconjccnmod:possnsubjadvmodconjadvmodpunctrootAtADPnightNOUNherPRONhusbandNOUNcameVERBhomeADV,PUNCTandCCONJwhenADVhePRONlookedVERBatADPhisPRONwifeNOUNhePRONsawVERBthatSCONJherPRONfaceNOUNwasAUXscratchedVERBandCCONJswollenADJandCCONJherPRONhairNOUNallADVpulledVERBaboutADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AtatADP_2 nightcase
2nightnightNOUNNumber=Sing5 cameobl
3herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs4 husbandnmod:poss
4husbandhusbandNOUNNumber=Sing5 camensubj
5camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6homehomeADV_5 cameadvmod
7,,PUNCT_11 lookedpunct
8andandCCONJ_11 lookedcc
9whenwhenADVPronType=Int11 lookedadvmod
10hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 lookednsubj
11lookedlookVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 cameconj
12atatADP_14 wifecase
13hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs14 wifenmod:poss
14wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing11 lookedobl
15hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 sawnsubj
16sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 wifeacl:relcl
17thatthatSCONJ_21 scratchedmark
18herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs19 facenmod:poss
19facefaceNOUNNumber=Sing21 scratchednsubj:pass
20wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 scratchedaux:pass
21scratchedscratchVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass16 sawxcomp
22andandCCONJ_23 swollencc
23swollenswollenADJDegree=Pos21 scratchedconj
24andandCCONJ_28 pulledcc
25herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 hairnmod:poss
26hairhairNOUNNumber=Sing28 pullednsubj
27allallADV_28 pulledadvmod
28pulledpullVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 scratchedconj
29aboutaboutADV_28 pulledadvmod
30..PUNCT_5 camepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1comepastwoman's husbandnighthome propertyvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2lookpasthusbandat husband's wifevn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at wife=Theme
3seepasthusbandhusband's wife not said heretree rules
4scratchpast · passivewoman's facevn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5pull aboutpastwoman's hairabout, all propertyvn slide-11.2 «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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