The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 68
She walked up to her husband and threw herself down over him, and kissed him while he was hobbling the horses.
Who acts: girl, husband · What happens: walk up, throw down, kiss, hobble · To what, where: girl, husband, horses
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 (girl, husband), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 walked | compound:prt |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 husband | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 husband | nmod:poss |
| 6 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walked | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 threw | cc |
| 8 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | conj |
| 9 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 threw | obj |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 threw | compound:prt |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 threw | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 kissed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 kissed | cc |
| 15 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | parataxis |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 kissed | obj |
| 17 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 hobbling | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 hobbling | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 hobbling | aux |
| 20 | hobbling | hobble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 kissed | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 horses | det |
| 22 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 hobbling | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk up | past | girl | to girl's husband result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to husband=Result | ||||
| 2 | throw down | past | girl not said here | girl | over husband | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme over he=Destination | |||
| 3 | kiss | past | husband | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | |||||
| 4 | hobble | past · progressive | husband | the horses | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Agent |
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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