The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 73
But there are many secret and wonderful things that we have learned through much prayer and through the search for different medicines.
Who acts: many secret things, we · What happens: be, learn · To what, where: many secret things, much prayer
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 (many secret things, we), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 are | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 are | expl |
| 3 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 things | amod |
| 5 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 things | amod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wonderful | cc |
| 7 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 secret | conj |
| 8 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 are | nsubj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 learned | obj |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 learned | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 learned | aux |
| 12 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 things | acl:relcl |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 prayer | case |
| 14 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 prayer | amod |
| 15 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 learned | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 search | cc |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 search | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 search | det |
| 19 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 prayer | conj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 medicines | case |
| 21 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 medicines | amod |
| 22 | medicines | medicine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 search | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | many secret things | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | learn | present · perfect | we | many secret things | much prayer and the search for different medicines | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic |
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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