The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 101
Worn out from her long tramp, and nearly crazed from thirst, the poor woman had barely strength to go on to the spring, where she drank long of the cool water, and then fell asleep.
Who acts: poor woman, woman · What happens: wear out, craze, have, go on, drink, fall · To what, where: long tramp, thirst, strength, cool water
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 (poor woman, woman), 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 | Worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 1 Worn | compound:prt |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 tramp | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 tramp | nmod:poss |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tramp | amod |
| 6 | tramp | tramp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Worn | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 crazed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 crazed | cc |
| 9 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 10 crazed | advmod |
| 10 | crazed | craze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Worn | conj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 thirst | case |
| 12 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 crazed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 woman | det |
| 15 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 woman | amod |
| 16 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 crazed | conj |
| 18 | barely | barely | ADV | _ | 19 strength | advmod |
| 19 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 go | mark |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 strength | acl |
| 22 | on | on | ADV | _ | 21 go | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 spring | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 spring | det |
| 25 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 go | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 drank | punct |
| 27 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 drank | advmod |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 drank | nsubj |
| 29 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 spring | conj |
| 30 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 34 water | advmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 water | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 water | det |
| 33 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 water | amod |
| 34 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 drank | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 fell | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 fell | cc |
| 37 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 38 fell | advmod |
| 38 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 had | conj |
| 39 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 fell | xcomp |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Worn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear out | participle | body's long tramp | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from tramp=Source | |||||
| 2 | craze | past | thirst | nearly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the poor woman | strength | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient | ||||
| 4 | go on | to-infinitive | the poor woman not said here | strength not said here | spring | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | drink | past | woman | the cool water | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | ||||
| 6 | fall | past | the poor woman not said here | then | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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