The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 71
His wonder increased when he found that the food tasted as good as it looked.
Who acts: wonder, food, chief · What happens: increase, find, taste, look, wonder · 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 (wonder, food, chief), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wonder | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 increased | nsubj |
| 3 | increased | increase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 found | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 found | nsubj |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 increased | advcl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 tasted | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 food | det |
| 9 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tasted | nsubj |
| 10 | tasted | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | ccomp |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 good | advmod |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tasted | xcomp |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 looked | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 looked | nsubj |
| 15 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 good | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 increased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | increase | past | chief's wonder | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | find | past | wonder | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | taste | past | the food | good property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | look | past | food | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | wonder | chief | nom wonder «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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