The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 127
New Robe was pleased, and when he learned how powerful the medicine was that he had chosen he knew that he had not left the home of his people in vain.
Who acts: New Robe, Robe · What happens: be, learn, choose, know, not leave · To what, where: medicine, home · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Beaver Stick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (New Robe, Robe), 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 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Robe | amod |
| 2 | Robe | Robe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 pleased | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pleased | cop |
| 4 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 learned | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 learned | cc |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 learned | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 learned | nsubj |
| 9 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 knew | advcl |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 powerful | advmod |
| 11 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 learned | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 medicine | det |
| 13 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 chosen | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 chosen | aux:pass |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 chosen | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 chosen | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 chosen | aux |
| 18 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 learned | ccomp |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 knew | nsubj |
| 20 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pleased | parataxis |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 left | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 left | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 left | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 left | advmod |
| 25 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 knew | ccomp |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 home | det |
| 27 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 left | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 people | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 people | nmod:poss |
| 30 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 home | nmod |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 vain | case |
| 32 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 people | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | New Robe | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | learn | past | Robe | powerful property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | choose | past · perfect · passive | the medicine | Robe nsubj | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | know | past | Robe | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | not leave | past · perfect | Robe | the home of Robe's people in vain | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=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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