The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 49
When he rode into the old camp, and came to where the lodge had been, he saw there on her knees a woman with an elk robe over her head, and in her hands his paints, which she was looking at.
Who acts: son, lodge, paints · What happens: ride, come, be, see, look · To what, where: old camp, knees
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 (son, lodge, paints), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 rode | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 saw | advcl |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 camp | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 camp | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 camp | amod |
| 7 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rode | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 came | cc |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rode | conj |
| 11 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 16 been | mark |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 been | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lodge | det |
| 14 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 been | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 been | aux |
| 16 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 came | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 rode | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 saw | advmod |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 knees | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 knees | nmod:poss |
| 23 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 saw | obl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 woman | det |
| 25 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 knees | appos |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 robe | case |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 robe | det |
| 28 | elk | elk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 robe | compound |
| 29 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 woman | nmod |
| 30 | over | over | ADP | _ | 32 head | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 head | nmod:poss |
| 32 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 robe | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 hands | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 hands | cc |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 hands | case |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 hands | nmod:poss |
| 37 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 saw | obl |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 paints | nmod:poss |
| 39 | paints | paint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 hands | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 looking | punct |
| 41 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 looking | nsubj |
| 42 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 looking | nsubj |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 looking | aux |
| 44 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 paints | acl |
| 45 | at | at | ADP | _ | 44 looking | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | son | the old camp | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into camp=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | come | past | son not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | be | past · perfect | the lodge | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | past | son | mother's knees; there | in mother's hands and son's paints | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | look | past · progressive | son's paints | mother nsubj | 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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