The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 4
The cast-off garments of the well-to-do were thought good enough for him.
What happens: think · To what, where: off garments
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: 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 | 5 garments | det |
| 2 | cast | cast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 off | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 cast | punct |
| 4 | off | off | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 garments | compound |
| 5 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 14 thought | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 thought | det |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 thought | advmod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 do | case |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 to | punct |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 thought | aux |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 thought | aux:pass |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 thought | xcomp |
| 16 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 14 thought | advmod |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thought | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | infinitive · passive · do-support | the off garments | for Robe; enough, good, well property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=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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