The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 22
In the evening New Robe met this girl, Mas-tah ki—Raven Woman—as she was coming from the river with a skin of water.
Who acts: New Robe, woman · What happens: meet, come · To what, where: girl, river
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 (New Robe, woman), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 met | obl |
| 4 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Robe | amod |
| 5 | Robe | Robe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 met | nsubj |
| 6 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 girl | det |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 met | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ki | punct |
| 10 | Mas | Mas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 ki | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Mas | punct |
| 12 | tah | tah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ki | compound |
| 13 | ki | ki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 girl | conj |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Woman | punct |
| 15 | Raven | raven | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Woman | amod |
| 16 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 met | obl |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Woman | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 coming | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 coming | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 coming | aux |
| 21 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 met | advcl |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 river | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 river | det |
| 24 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 coming | obl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 skin | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 skin | det |
| 27 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 coming | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 water | case |
| 29 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 skin | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | New Robe | this girl and Mas tah ki | evening | Raven Woman obl | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Co-Agent | ||
| 2 | come | past · progressive | woman | the river | with a skin of water | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from river=Initial_Location |
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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