The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 97
All the men went out from the camp and built their wooden traps, and Nothing Child also went out and made a wooden trap.
Who acts: men, Nothing Child · What happens: go out, build, make · To what, where: camp, wooden traps, wooden trap
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 (men, 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 men | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 men | det |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 camp | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 camp | det |
| 8 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 built | cc |
| 10 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 traps | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 traps | amod |
| 13 | traps | trap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 built | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 16 | Nothing | nothing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Child | amod |
| 17 | Child | Child | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 went | nsubj |
| 18 | also | also | ADV | _ | 19 went | advmod |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | parataxis |
| 20 | out | out | ADV | _ | 19 went | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 made | cc |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 went | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 trap | det |
| 24 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 trap | amod |
| 25 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 made | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | all men | the camp | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | build | past | all men not said here | daughters's wooden traps | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trap=Product | ||||
| 3 | go out | past | Nothing Child | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | make | past | Nothing Child not said here | a wooden trap | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trap=Product |
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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