The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 42
The head chief of the Snakes had but one son, a fine-looking young man—the handsomest in all the Snake camp.
Who acts: head chief · What happens: have, look
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 (head chief), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 chief | det |
| 2 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chief | compound |
| 3 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Snakes | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Snakes | det |
| 6 | Snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 chief | nmod |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 handsomest | cc |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 son | nummod |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 handsomest | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 man | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 13 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 looking | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 fine | punct |
| 15 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 man | amod |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 handsomest | nsubj |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 handsomest | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 handsomest | det |
| 20 | handsomest | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 had | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 camp | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 camp | det:predet |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 camp | det |
| 24 | Snake | Snake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 camp | compound |
| 25 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 handsomest | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the head chief of the Snakes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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