The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 63
Go back to the old camp of your people, to the cliff where they drive the buffalo, the piś kun, and wait there.
Who acts: you, people · What happens: go back, drive, wait · To what, where: buffalo
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 (you, people), 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Go | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 camp | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 camp | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 camp | amod |
| 6 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Go | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 people | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 people | nmod:poss |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 camp | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cliff | punct |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 cliff | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cliff | det |
| 13 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Go | obl |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 drive | advmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 drive | nsubj |
| 16 | drive | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 cliff | acl:relcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 buffalo | det |
| 18 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drive | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 kun | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 kun | det |
| 21 | piś | piś | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 kun | compound |
| 22 | kun | kun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 buffalo | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 wait | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 wait | cc |
| 25 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 26 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 wait | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | imperative | you not said here | to the old camp of your people result; to the cliff | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to camp=Result | ||||
| 2 | drive | present | people | the buffalo and the piś kun | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme buffalo=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | wait | infinitive | you not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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