The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 23
Already he had combed out his hair and washed himself, and she stared at him in surprise.
Who acts: Robe, woman · What happens: comb out, wash, stare · To what, where: hair, Robe, surprise
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 (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 | Already | already | ADV | _ | 4 combed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 combed | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 combed | aux |
| 4 | combed | comb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 combed | compound:prt |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hair | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 combed | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 washed | cc |
| 9 | washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 combed | conj |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 washed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stared | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stared | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stared | nsubj |
| 14 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 washed | conj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stared | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 surprise | case |
| 18 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stared | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 combed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | comb out | past · perfect | Robe | Robe's hair | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | ||||
| 2 | wash | past | Robe not said here | Robe | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 3 | stare | past | woman | surprise | at Robe | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=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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