The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 30
When they reached this stream they found that the Snakes had been camped there, and had moved away that day.
Who acts: wives · What happens: reach, find, camp, move away · To what, where: stream, Snakes · 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 (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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 found | advcl |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 stream | det |
| 5 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 found | nsubj |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 camped | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Snakes | det |
| 10 | Snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 camped | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 camped | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 camped | aux:pass |
| 13 | camped | camp | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 found | ccomp |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 camped | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 moved | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 moved | cc |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 moved | aux |
| 18 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 found | conj |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 moved | advmod |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 day | det |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 moved | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | wives = wife | this stream | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent stream=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | wives = wife | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | camp | past · perfect · passive | the Snakes | there | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location | ||||
| 4 | move away | past · perfect | wives = wife not said here | day | away property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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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