The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 29
The bear, which all this time had been lying by the door of the lodge, listening, was angry at the lies the woman had told, and at what her husband had done, and he got up and went out and followed the boy.
Who acts: bear, lies, husband · What happens: lie, listen, be, tell, do, get up · To what, where: lies, woman, husband, boy · 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 (bear, lies, husband), 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 bear | det |
| 2 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 angry | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lying | punct |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 lying | nsubj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 time | det:predet |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lying | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lying | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 lying | aux |
| 10 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 bear | conj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 door | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 door | det |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lying | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 lodge | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lodge | det |
| 16 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 door | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 listening | punct |
| 18 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 lying | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 bear | punct |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 angry | cop |
| 21 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 lies | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 lies | det |
| 24 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 angry | obl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 woman | det |
| 26 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 told | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 told | aux |
| 28 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 lies | acl:relcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 done | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 done | cc |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 what | case |
| 32 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 done | obl |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 husband | nmod:poss |
| 34 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 done | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 done | aux |
| 36 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 angry | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 got | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 got | cc |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 got | nsubj |
| 40 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 angry | parataxis |
| 41 | up | up | ADP | _ | 40 got | compound:prt |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 went | cc |
| 43 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 got | conj |
| 44 | out | out | ADV | _ | 43 went | advmod |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 followed | cc |
| 46 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 went | conj |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 boy | det |
| 48 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 followed | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past · perfect · progressive | the bear | time | by the door of the lodge | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by door=Location | |||
| 2 | listen | gerund | the bear not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the bear | the lies | angry property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | the lies not said here | the woman | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | do | past · perfect · passive | woman's husband | what obl | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | get up | past | husband | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | go out | past | husband not said here | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | follow | past | husband not said here | the boy | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=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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