The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 77
Shield Quiver and the Snake wrestled and tugged backward and forward to see who should get the lance.
Who acts: Shield · What happens: wrestle, tug, see, get · To what, where: lance · 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 (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 | Shield | Shield | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 wrestled | nsubj |
| 2 | Quiver | Quiver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Shield | flat |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Snake | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Snake | det |
| 5 | Snake | Snake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Shield | conj |
| 6 | wrestled | wrestle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 tugged | cc |
| 8 | tugged | tug | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wrestled | conj |
| 9 | backward | backward | ADV | _ | 8 tugged | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 forward | cc |
| 11 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 9 backward | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 see | mark |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 tugged | advcl |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 get | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 get | aux |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 see | ccomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lance | det |
| 18 | lance | lance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 get | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wrestled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrestle | past | Shield and the Snake | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tug | past | Shield and the Snake not said here | backward property | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | Shield and the Snake not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | get | should | the lance | who nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lance=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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