The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 50
When he rode up to her, and when she looked up at him, he saw that she was very pretty, and he liked her as soon as he looked at her; and she, when she saw him, so handsome and finely dressed and painted, liked him.
Who acts: son, mother · What happens: ride up, look up, see, be, like, look · To what, where: mother, son · Speech: someone speaks here
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, 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 | 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 | 17 saw | advcl |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 rode | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rode | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 looked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 looked | cc |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 looked | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 looked | nsubj |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rode | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 looked | compound:prt |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 looked | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 rode | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 pretty | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 pretty | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 pretty | cop |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 pretty | advmod |
| 22 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 17 saw | ccomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 liked | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 liked | cc |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 liked | nsubj |
| 26 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 saw | conj |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 liked | obj |
| 28 | as | as | ADV | _ | 29 soon | advmod |
| 29 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 liked | advmod |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 looked | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 looked | nsubj |
| 32 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 soon | advcl |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 her | case |
| 34 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 looked | obl |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 saw | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 saw | cc |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 saw | nsubj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 saw | punct |
| 39 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 41 saw | advmod |
| 40 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 saw | nsubj |
| 41 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 saw | conj |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 saw | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 handsome | punct |
| 44 | so | so | ADV | _ | 45 handsome | advmod |
| 45 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 saw | parataxis |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 dressed | cc |
| 47 | finely | finely | ADV | _ | 48 dressed | advmod |
| 48 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 handsome | conj |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 painted | cc |
| 50 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 48 dressed | conj |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 liked | punct |
| 52 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 saw | conj |
| 53 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 liked | obj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride up | past | son | mother | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to she=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | look up | past | mother | at son | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | son | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | past | mother | pretty property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | like | past | son | mother | soon property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot she=Theme | |||
| 6 | look | past | son | at mother | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | ||||
| 7 | see | past | mother | son | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | dress | participle | mother not said here | finely property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | paint | participle | mother not said here | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 10 | like | past | son not said here | son | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=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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