The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 43
New Robe arose and shook the grass from his robe.
Who acts: New Robe · What happens: arise, shake · To what, where: grass, robe
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), 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 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Robe | amod |
| 2 | Robe | Robe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 arose | nsubj |
| 3 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 shook | cc |
| 5 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 arose | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 grass | det |
| 7 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shook | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 robe | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 robe | nmod:poss |
| 10 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shook | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | New Robe | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | shake | past | New Robe not said here | the grass | grass's robe | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent grass=Theme from robe=Trajectory |
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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