The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 41
That day the Snakes had left this camp, and had moved over to another creek.
Who acts: Snakes · What happens: leave, move over · To what, where: 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: who acts (Snakes), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 left | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Snakes | det |
| 4 | Snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 left | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 left | aux |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 camp | det |
| 8 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 left | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 moved | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 moved | cc |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 moved | aux |
| 12 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 left | conj |
| 13 | over | over | ADV | _ | 12 moved | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 creek | case |
| 15 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 creek | det |
| 16 | creek | creek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 moved | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · perfect | the Snakes | this camp | day | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camp=Theme | |||
| 2 | move over | past · perfect | the Snakes not said here | to another creek result; over property | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to creek=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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