The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 153

When he came out of the fourth sweat lodge, New Robe had shed the last of his beaver fur, and was so changed that no one recognized him.

Who acts: man, New Robe, one · What happens: come out, shed, change, recognize · To what, where: fourth sweat lodge, last, man

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, New Robe, one), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	9 lodge	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 lodge	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lodge	det
7	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 lodge	amod
8	sweat	sweat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lodge	compound
9	lodge	lodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 shed	punct
11	New	New	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Robe	amod
12	Robe	Robe	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 shed	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 shed	aux
14	shed	shed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 lodge	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 last	det
16	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shed	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 fur	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 fur	nmod:poss
19	beaver	beaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fur	compound
20	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 last	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 changed	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 changed	cc
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 changed	aux:pass
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 changed	advmod
25	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 came	parataxis
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 recognized	mark
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 one	det
28	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 recognized	nsubj
29	recognized	recognize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 changed	advcl
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 recognized	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	come out	past	man	the fourth sweat lodge	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient lodge=Result
2	shed	past · perfect	New Robe	the last of man's beaver fur	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location last=Source
3	change	past · passive			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»
4	recognize	past	no one	man	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 153