The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 5
He was always dirty and ragged, and his matted and tangled hair hung low over his forehead, and almost hid his sore red eyes.
Who acts: Robe · What happens: be, mat, tangle, hang, hide · To what, where: hair, forehead, sore red eyes
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dirty | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dirty | cop |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 dirty | advmod |
| 4 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 ragged | cc |
| 6 | ragged | ragged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dirty | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 matted | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 matted | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 matted | nmod:poss |
| 10 | matted | mat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 dirty | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tangled | cc |
| 12 | tangled | tangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 matted | conj |
| 13 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tangled | obj |
| 14 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 hair | acl |
| 15 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 hung | advmod |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 forehead | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 18 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hung | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hid | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 hid | cc |
| 21 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 22 hid | advmod |
| 22 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dirty | conj |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 24 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 eyes | amod |
| 25 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 eyes | amod |
| 26 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 hid | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dirty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Robe | always, dirty property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Robe not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | mat | participle | Robe not said here | Robe nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tangle | participle | Robe not said here | hair | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | hang | participle | hair not said here | Robe's forehead | low property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over forehead=Location | |||
| 6 | hide | past | Robe not said here | Robe's sore red eyes | almost property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
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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