The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 103
After they had sat down the young man reached down into his belt and drew out the scalp and said: “Here, old man, here is all I have done on this journey.
Who acts: Snakes, young man · What happens: sit down, reach down, draw out, say, be · To what, where: belt, scalp, journey · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Snakes, young man), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 sat | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sat | aux |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 reached | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reached | nsubj |
| 9 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sat | advcl |
| 10 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 reached | advmod |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 belt | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 belt | nmod:poss |
| 13 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reached | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 drew | cc |
| 15 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sat | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 drew | compound:prt |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 scalp | det |
| 18 | scalp | scalp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drew | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 drew | conj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 Here | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Here | punct |
| 23 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 said | ccomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 man | punct |
| 25 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 man | amod |
| 26 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Here | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 here | punct |
| 28 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 Here | conj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 done | cop |
| 30 | all | all | ADV | _ | 33 done | advmod |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 done | nsubj |
| 32 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 done | aux |
| 33 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 said | ccomp |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 journey | case |
| 35 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 journey | det |
| 36 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 done | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past · perfect | Snakes = snake | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | reach down | past | the young man | Shield's belt | down property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into belt=Path | |||
| 3 | draw out | past | Snakes = snake not said here | the scalp | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scalp=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Snakes = snake not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present · perfect | Snakes = snake | this journey | all, do property | tree rules |
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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