The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 9
One time the Blackfeet were camped at the Bear Paw Mountains, when Shield Quiver made up his mind that he would go off on the war-path.
Who acts: Shield · What happens: camp, make up, go off, mind · To what, where: Blackfeet, Bear Paw Mountains, mind, war path
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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 time | nummod |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 camped | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Blackfeet | det |
| 4 | Blackfeet | Blackfeet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 camped | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 camped | aux:pass |
| 6 | camped | camp | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 Mountains | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Mountains | det |
| 9 | Bear | Bear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Mountains | compound |
| 10 | Paw | Paw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Mountains | compound |
| 11 | Mountains | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 camped | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 13 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 16 made | mark |
| 14 | Shield | Shield | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 made | nsubj |
| 15 | Quiver | Quiver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Shield | flat |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Mountains | acl:relcl |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 made | compound:prt |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 mind | nmod:poss |
| 19 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 go | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 go | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 go | aux |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 made | advcl |
| 24 | off | off | ADP | _ | 23 go | compound:prt |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 path | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 path | det |
| 27 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 path | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 war | punct |
| 29 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 go | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 camped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | camp | past · passive | the Blackfeet | the Bear Paw Mountains | time | vn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme at mountain=Location | |||
| 2 | make up | past | Shield | Shield's mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | go off | would | Shield | the war path | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on path=Location | ||||
| 4 | mind | Shield | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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