The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 40
For often something may be forgotten and left in the camp.
What happens: forget, leave · To what, where: something, camp
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: 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 often | case |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 6 forgotten | advmod |
| 3 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 forgotten | nsubj |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 forgotten | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 forgotten | aux:pass |
| 6 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 left | cc |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 forgotten | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 camp | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 camp | det |
| 11 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 forgotten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | may · passive | something | often property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave | participle | in the camp result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in camp=Result |
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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