The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 151
Soon he left this sweat lodge and went into the next one, and the people crowded around the one he had left, looking with wonder at the little heap of shed fur.
Who acts: man, people · What happens: leave, go, crowd, look, shed · To what, where: sweat lodge, one
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 (man, people), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 left | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | nsubj |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 lodge | det |
| 5 | sweat | sweat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lodge | compound |
| 6 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | conj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 one | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 one | det |
| 11 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 one | amod |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 crowded | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 crowded | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 people | det |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 crowded | nsubj |
| 17 | crowded | crowd | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | conj |
| 18 | around | around | ADP | _ | 20 one | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 one | det |
| 20 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 crowded | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 left | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 left | aux |
| 23 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 one | acl:relcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 looking | punct |
| 25 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 crowded | advcl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 wonder | case |
| 27 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 looking | obl |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 heap | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 heap | det |
| 30 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 heap | amod |
| 31 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 looking | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 fur | case |
| 33 | shed | shed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 fur | amod |
| 34 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 heap | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | man | this sweat lodge | soon property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lodge=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | man not said here | into the next one | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into one=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | crowd | past | the people | around the one | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent around one=Destination | ||||
| 4 | leave | past · perfect | man | the one not said here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 5 | look | gerund | the people not said here | with wonder; at the little heap of shed fur | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at heap=Theme | ||||
| 6 | shed | participle | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
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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