The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 82

Although there was no fire in the lodge, it was warm enough, and not colder at night than in the daytime: thus little covering was needed when its occupants went to bed.

Who acts: fire, occupants · What happens: be, not be, need, go · To what, where: little covering, bed

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 (fire, occupants), 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	Although	although	SCONJ	_	3 was	mark
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 warm	cop
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 fire	det
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 lodge	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lodge	det
8	lodge	lodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fire	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 was	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 warm	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 warm	cop
12	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	enough	enough	ADV	_	12 warm	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 colder	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 colder	cc
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 colder	advmod
17	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 warm	conj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 night	case
19	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 colder	obl
20	than	than	ADP	_	23 daytime	case
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 daytime	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 daytime	det
23	daytime	daytime	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 colder	obl
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 needed	punct
25	thus	thus	ADV	_	29 needed	advmod
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 covering	amod
27	covering	covering	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 needed	nsubj:pass
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 needed	aux:pass
29	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 daytime	conj
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 went	advmod
31	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 occupants	nmod:poss
32	occupants	occupant	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 went	nsubj
33	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 needed	advcl
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 bed	case
35	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 went	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 warm	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	fire				enough, warm property	tree rules
2	not be		fire not said here			night	than the daytime	tree rules
3	need	past · passive		little covering			thus property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme
4	go	past	covering's occupants		bed			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location

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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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 82