The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 148
The young men returned to the camp, and in a little while came back to say that all was ready.
Who acts: young men, all · What happens: return, come back, say, be · 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 (young men, all), 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 | 3 men | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 men | amod |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 camp | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 camp | det |
| 7 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 came | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 while | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 while | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 while | amod |
| 13 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 returned | conj |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 say | mark |
| 17 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 came | advcl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 ready | mark |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 ready | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 ready | cop |
| 21 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 say | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the young men | to the camp result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to camp=Result | ||||
| 2 | come back | past | the young men not said here | while | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | the young men not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | all | ready property | tree rules |
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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