The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 7
When either of the two went to war, he always had a big party to follow him.
Who acts: either, Shield · What happens: go, have, follow · To what, where: war, big party, Shield
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 (either, Shield), 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 | 6 went | advmod |
| 2 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 went | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 two | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 two | det |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 either | nmod |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 had | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 war | case |
| 8 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 11 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 12 had | advmod |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 party | det |
| 14 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 party | amod |
| 15 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 follow | mark |
| 17 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 party | acl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 follow | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | either of the two | war | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to war=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Shield | a big party | always property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Patient | |||
| 3 | follow | to-infinitive | Shield not said here | Shield | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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