The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 59
Then the man was angry, and when they came near to the lodge he took an arrow from his quiver and shot his wife, and her shadow went to the sand-hills.
Who acts: man, things, shadow, woman · What happens: be, come, take, shoot, go, quiver · To what, where: lodge, arrow, quiver, wife, sand hills
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 (man, things, shadow, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 angry | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 angry | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | cop |
| 5 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 took | cc |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 came | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 took | advcl |
| 11 | near | near | ADV | _ | 10 came | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 lodge | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lodge | det |
| 14 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 took | nsubj |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | parataxis |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 arrow | det |
| 18 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 quiver | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 quiver | nmod:poss |
| 21 | quiver | quiver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 arrow | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 shot | cc |
| 23 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 took | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 wife | nmod:poss |
| 25 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shot | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 went | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 went | cc |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 shadow | nmod:poss |
| 29 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 went | nsubj |
| 30 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 took | conj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 hills | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 hills | det |
| 33 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 hills | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 sand | punct |
| 35 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 went | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the man | then | angry property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come | past | things = thing | the lodge | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lodge=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | take | past | man | a arrow | man's quiver | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme from quiver=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | shoot | past | man not said here | man's wife | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go | past | woman's shadow | the sand hills | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hill=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | quiver | man | nom quiver «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | shadow | woman | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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