The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 92
The eagle was taken to the chief’s lodge, and they told him it had been killed by the Nothing Child.
Who acts: arrows, Nothing Child · What happens: take, tell, kill · To what, where: eagle, lodge, man · 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 (arrows, Nothing Child), 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 eagle | det |
| 2 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taken | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | aux:pass |
| 4 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 lodge | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 chief | det |
| 7 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lodge | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 chief | case |
| 9 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taken | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 told | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 told | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 told | nsubj |
| 13 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 told | iobj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 killed | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 killed | aux:pass |
| 18 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 told | ccomp |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 Child | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Child | det |
| 21 | Nothing | Nothing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Child | compound |
| 22 | Child | Child | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 killed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · passive | the eagle | the chief's lodge | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to lodge=Destination | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | arrows = arrow | man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | kill | past · perfect · passive | the Nothing Child | eagle | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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