The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 29
Then they went on towards the head waters of a stream that they could see a long way off.
Who acts: wives · What happens: go on, see · To what, where: long way
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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 8 waters | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 waters | det |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 waters | compound |
| 8 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 stream | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 stream | det |
| 11 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 waters | nmod |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 see | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 see | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | aux |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 way | det |
| 17 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 way | amod |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 see | obj |
| 19 | off | off | ADV | _ | 15 see | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | wives = wife | then | towards the head waters of a stream | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | could | wives = wife | a long way | off property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus |
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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