The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 2
They were both good warriors and were making great names for themselves.
Who acts: men · What happens: be, make · To what, where: good warriors, great names
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 (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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 warriors | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 warriors | cop |
| 3 | both | both | ADV | _ | 5 warriors | advmod |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 warriors | amod |
| 5 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 making | cc |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 making | aux |
| 8 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 warriors | conj |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 names | amod |
| 10 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 making | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 themselves | case |
| 12 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 making | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 warriors | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | men = man | good warriors | both property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | past · progressive | men = man not said here | great names | for men = man | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent name=Product for themselves=Asset |
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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