The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 44
While his mother was packing, she put down the paints in a little patch of brush, near the lodge, and then went away and forgot them.
Who acts: mother · What happens: pack, put down, go away, forget · To what, where: paints, little patch
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 (mother), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 packing | mark |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 packing | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 packing | aux |
| 5 | packing | pack | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 put | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 packing | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 put | nsubj |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 put | compound:prt |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 paints | det |
| 11 | paints | paint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 put | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 patch | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 patch | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 patch | amod |
| 15 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 brush | case |
| 17 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 patch | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lodge | punct |
| 19 | near | near | ADP | _ | 21 lodge | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 lodge | det |
| 21 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 went | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 went | cc |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 went | advmod |
| 25 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 put | parataxis |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 went | advmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 forgot | cc |
| 28 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 went | conj |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 forgot | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pack | past · progressive | son's mother | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | put down | past | mother | the paints | a little patch of brush | near the lodge | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent paint=Theme in patch=Destination | ||
| 3 | go away | past | then | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | forget | past | paints = paint | tree rules |
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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