The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 144
One morning he came in sight of the camp, and sat down on a neighboring hill, prepared to do just as the old man had instructed him.
Who acts: brother · What happens: come, sit down, neighbor, prepare, do, instruct · To what, where: sight, neighboring hill, old man, camp
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 (brother), 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 morning | nummod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 sight | case |
| 6 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 camp | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 camp | det |
| 9 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sight | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sat | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sat | cc |
| 12 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | parataxis |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 sat | compound:prt |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 hill | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hill | det |
| 16 | neighboring | neighbor | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 hill | amod |
| 17 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sat | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 prepared | punct |
| 19 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 sat | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 do | mark |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 prepared | xcomp |
| 22 | just | just | ADV | _ | 28 instructed | advmod |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 instructed | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 man | det |
| 25 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 man | amod |
| 26 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 instructed | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 instructed | aux |
| 28 | instructed | instruct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 do | advcl |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 instructed | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | brother | sight of the camp | morning | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location | |||
| 2 | sit down | past | a neighboring hill | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hill=Location | |||||
| 3 | neighbor | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | prepare | participle | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | ||||||
| 5 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | instruct speech: other | past · perfect · passive | the old man | brother obj | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | sight | the camp | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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