The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 99
The woman put on her best clothes, and painted herself up nicely, and they started off to the old chief’s lodge.
Who acts: woman, clothes · What happens: put, paint up, start off · To what, where: best clothes, woman
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 (woman, clothes), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 woman | det |
| 2 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 clothes | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 clothes | amod |
| 7 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 put | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 painted | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 painted | cc |
| 10 | painted | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 11 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 painted | obj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 painted | compound:prt |
| 13 | nicely | nicely | ADV | _ | 10 painted | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 started | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 started | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 started | nsubj |
| 17 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 started | compound:prt |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 lodge | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 chief | det |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 chief | amod |
| 22 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lodge | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 chief | case |
| 24 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 started | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | the woman | woman's best clothes | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on clothes=Destination | ||||
| 2 | paint up | past | the woman not said here | woman | nicely property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Destination | |||
| 3 | start off | past | clothes | to the old chief's lodge | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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