The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 83
New Robe was awakened from his first night’s rest in the strange place by the old man calling him to arise and eat.
Who acts: old man · What happens: awaken, call, arise, eat · To what, where: New Robe, rest, Robe · 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 (old man), 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 | 4 awakened | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 awakened | aux:pass |
| 4 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 rest | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 night | nmod:poss |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 night | amod |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rest | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 night | case |
| 10 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 awakened | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 place | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 place | det |
| 13 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 place | amod |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 awakened | obl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 man | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 man | amod |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 place | nmod |
| 19 | calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 man | acl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 calling | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 arise | mark |
| 22 | arise | arise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 calling | xcomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 eat | cc |
| 24 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 arise | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 awakened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awaken | past · passive | New Robe | Robe's first night's rest | in the strange place by the old man | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | call | gerund | the old man not said here | Robe | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | arise | to-infinitive | the old man not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | eat | infinitive | the old man not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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