The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 30
They travelled for a while and then slept, and the next day went on again, going towards the mountains.
Who acts: arrows, next day · What happens: travel, sleep, go on, go · To what, where: mountains
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 (arrows, next day), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 travelled | nsubj |
| 2 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 while | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 while | det |
| 5 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 travelled | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 slept | cc |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 slept | advmod |
| 8 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 travelled | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 day | det |
| 12 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 day | amod |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 travelled | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 going | punct |
| 18 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 went | advcl |
| 19 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 21 mountains | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 mountains | det |
| 21 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 going | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 travelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | arrows = arrow | while | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sleep | past | arrows = arrow not said here | then | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go on | past | the next day | again | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | gerund | the next day not said here | the mountains | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards mountain=Initial_Location |
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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