The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 48
The young man caught up a horse and went back to get it that same evening.
Who acts: young man · What happens: catch up, go back, get · To what, where: horse, lodge
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 (young man), 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 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 caught | nsubj |
| 4 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 caught | compound:prt |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 horse | det |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 caught | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 caught | conj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 get | mark |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 went | advcl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 get | obj |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 evening | det |
| 15 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 evening | amod |
| 16 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 get | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch up | participle | the young man | a horse | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go back | past | the young man not said here | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | the young man not said here | lodge | evening | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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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