The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 50
New Robe followed, wondering why they should take that course.
Who acts: New Robe, stranger · What happens: follow, wonder, take · To what, where: course · Speech: someone speaks here
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, stranger), 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 followed | nsubj |
| 3 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wondering | punct |
| 5 | wondering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 followed | advcl |
| 6 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 take | advmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 take | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 take | aux |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wondering | ccomp |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 course | det |
| 11 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 take | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | New Robe | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | New Robe not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | take | should | stranger | that course | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=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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