The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 27
He started with his young wife, and they went towards the Snake Country.
Who acts: Blackfeet, wives · What happens: start, go · To what, where: Snake Country
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 (Blackfeet, wives), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 started | nsubj |
| 2 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 wife | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wife | nmod:poss |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wife | amod |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 started | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 started | conj |
| 11 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 14 Country | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Country | det |
| 13 | Snake | Snake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Country | compound |
| 14 | Country | Country | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | Blackfeet | with Blackfeet's young wife | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with wife=Subeventuality | ||||
| 2 | go | past | wives = wife | the Snake Country | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards country=Initial_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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