The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 43
That morning, before they moved, he had painted himself and had dressed himself finely, and after he had finished he handed his mother his sack of paints to pack.
Who acts: men, son · What happens: move, paint, dress, finish, hand, pack · To what, where: son, sack, mother
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 (men, son), 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 morning | det |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 moved | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 moved | punct |
| 4 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 6 moved | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 moved | nsubj |
| 6 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 painted | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 painted | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 painted | aux |
| 10 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 moved | parataxis |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 painted | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 dressed | cc |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 dressed | aux |
| 14 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 painted | conj |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 dressed | obj |
| 16 | finely | finely | ADV | _ | 14 dressed | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 finished | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 finished | cc |
| 19 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 22 finished | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 finished | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 finished | aux |
| 22 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 handed | advcl |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 handed | nsubj |
| 24 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 moved | conj |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 mother | nmod:poss |
| 26 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 handed | obj |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 sack | nmod:poss |
| 28 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 handed | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 paints | case |
| 30 | paints | paint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 sack | nmod |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 pack | mark |
| 32 | pack | pack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 handed | advcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past | men = man | morning | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | paint | past · perfect | son | son | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Destination | ||||
| 3 | dress | past · perfect | son not said here | son | finely property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | |||
| 4 | finish | past · perfect | son | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | hand | past | son | son's sack of paints | son's mother | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent mother=Destination sack=Theme | |||
| 6 | pack | to-infinitive | son not said here | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: 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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