The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 99

Some of the wolves were white all over, and some were white with gray tails, but no one had a white wolf with a black tail.

Who acts: wolves, some, one · What happens: be, have · To what, where: white wolf

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 (wolves, some, one), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 wolves	det
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 wolves	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wolves	det
4	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 white	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 white	cop
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 over	advmod
8	over	over	ADV	_	6 white	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 white	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 white	cc
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 white	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 white	cop
13	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 white	conj
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 tails	case
15	gray	gray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tails	amod
16	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 white	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 had	cc
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 one	det
20	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 white	parataxis
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 wolf	det
23	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 wolf	amod
24	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	28 tail	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 tail	det
27	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 tail	amod
28	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 white	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	some wolves		over, white property	tree rules
2	is	past	some		with gray tails; white property	tree rules
3	have	past	no one	a white wolf	with a black tail	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Patient

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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🌲 The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 99

The tree

Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 99