The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 137
After a little he came to a river, swollen and swift with the melted snows.
Who acts: little · What happens: come, swift, melt · To what, where: river
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 (little), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 little | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 came | nsubj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 river | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 river | det |
| 8 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 swollen | punct |
| 10 | swollen | swollen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 river | amod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 swift | cc |
| 12 | swift | swift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 swollen | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 snows | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 snows | det |
| 15 | melted | melt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 snows | amod |
| 16 | snows | snow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 swift | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a little | a river | power nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | swift | present | a little not said here | with the melted snows | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | melt | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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