The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 1
There were two young men growing up in the Blackfoot camp.
Who acts: two young men · What happens: be, grow up · To what, where: Blackfoot camp
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Shield Quiver’s Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two young men), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 men | nummod |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 men | amod |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 6 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 men | acl |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 growing | compound:prt |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 camp | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 camp | det |
| 10 | Blackfoot | Blackfoot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 camp | compound |
| 11 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 growing | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | two young men | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grow up | gerund | two young men not said here | the Blackfoot camp | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in camp=Location |
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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