The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 1
It was in the summer, when the Blackfoot and Piegan tribes were camped together, that the Blackfoot Front Wolf first noticed Su-yé-sai-pi, a Piegan girl, and liked her, and determined to make her his wife.
Who acts: It, Blackfoot Front Wolf · What happens: be, camp, notice, like, make · To what, where: Blackfoot tribes, Su, wife
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Little Friend Coyote. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, Blackfoot Front Wolf), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 summer | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 summer | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 summer | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 summer | det |
| 5 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 camped | punct |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 camped | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tribes | det |
| 9 | Blackfoot | Blackfoot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 tribes | compound |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Piegan | cc |
| 11 | Piegan | Piegan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Blackfoot | conj |
| 12 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 camped | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 camped | aux:pass |
| 14 | camped | camp | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 summer | conj |
| 15 | together | together | ADV | _ | 14 camped | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 noticed | punct |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 noticed | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Wolf | det |
| 19 | Blackfoot | Blackfoot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Wolf | compound |
| 20 | Front | Front | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Wolf | compound |
| 21 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 noticed | nsubj |
| 22 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 noticed | advmod |
| 23 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 camped | parataxis |
| 24 | Su | Su | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 noticed | obj |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 Su | punct |
| 26 | yé | yé | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 pi | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 yé | punct |
| 28 | sai | sai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 pi | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 sai | punct |
| 30 | pi | pi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 noticed | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 girl | punct |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 girl | det |
| 33 | Piegan | Piegan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 girl | compound |
| 34 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 pi | appos |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 liked | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 liked | cc |
| 37 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 noticed | conj |
| 38 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 liked | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 determined | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 determined | cc |
| 41 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 liked | ccomp |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 make | mark |
| 43 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 determined | xcomp |
| 44 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 make | obj |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 wife | nmod:poss |
| 46 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 make | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 summer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | It | in the summer | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | camp | past · passive | the Blackfoot tribes | together property | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location | ||||
| 3 | notice | past | the Blackfoot Front Wolf | Su | yé sai pi obl; first property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer su=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | like | past | the Blackfoot Front Wolf not said here | Su | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot she=Theme | ||||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | the Blackfoot Front Wolf not said here | Wolf's wife | Su | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary wife=Product |
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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