The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 145
Pretty soon two or three young men approached, looking with wonder at the strange and beautiful robe he wore.
Who acts: two young men, man · What happens: approach, look, wear · To what, where: strange robe
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 (two young men, man), 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 | Pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 approached | advmod |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 men | nummod |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 three | cc |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 two | conj |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 men | amod |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 approached | nsubj |
| 8 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 looking | punct |
| 10 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 approached | advcl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 wonder | case |
| 12 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looking | obl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 robe | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 robe | det |
| 15 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 robe | amod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 beautiful | cc |
| 17 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 strange | conj |
| 18 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looking | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 wore | nsubj |
| 20 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 robe | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 approached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approach | past | two young men | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | two young men not said here | with wonder; at the strange robe | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at robe=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wear | past | man | the strange robe not said here | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent robe=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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