The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 112

The girl had two brothers, and both were sitting in the lodge while Shield Quiver was speaking; and when they had heard the story told, and had thought about it, they got up, and each took hold of one of the girl’s arms, and they led her out of the lodge.

Who acts: girl, both, Shield, brothers, story, each · What happens: have, sit, speak, hear, tell, think · To what, where: two brothers, lodge, hold, girl · 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 (girl, both, Shield, brothers), 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 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 brothers	nummod
5	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sitting	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sitting	cc
8	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	10 sitting	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sitting	aux
10	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 had	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 lodge	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lodge	det
13	lodge	lodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sitting	obl
14	while	while	SCONJ	_	18 speaking	mark
15	Shield	Shield	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 speaking	nsubj
16	Quiver	Quiver	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Shield	flat
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 speaking	aux
18	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 sitting	advcl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 heard	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 heard	cc
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 heard	advmod
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 heard	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 heard	aux
24	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 had	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 story	det
26	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 told	nsubj
27	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 heard	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 thought	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 thought	cc
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 thought	aux
31	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 told	conj
32	about	about	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 thought	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 got	punct
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 got	nsubj
36	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 told	conj
37	up	up	ADP	_	36 got	compound:prt
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 took	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 took	cc
40	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	41 took	nsubj
41	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 told	conj
42	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 took	obj
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 one	case
44	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 hold	nmod
45	of	of	ADP	_	49 arms	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 girl	det
47	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 arms	nmod:poss
48	’s	's	PART	_	47 girl	case
49	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 one	nmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 led	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 led	cc
52	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 led	nsubj
53	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 took	conj
54	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 led	obj
55	out	out	ADP	_	58 lodge	case
56	of	of	ADP	_	58 lodge	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 lodge	det
58	lodge	lodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 led	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	the girl	two brothers			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient
2	sit	past · progressive	both		the lodge		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in lodge=Location
3	speak speech: other	past · progressive	Shield				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hear	past · perfect	brothers = brother				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
5	tell speech: assert	past	the story				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	think speech: other	past · perfect	the story not said here			about story	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic
7	get up	past	brothers = brother				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
8	take	past	each	hold of one of the girl's arms			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
9	lead	past	brothers = brother	girl	the lodge		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme out lodge=Destination

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, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 112