The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 103
Well on in the afternoon she was awakened by something nudging her side.
What happens: awaken, nudge · To what, where: pi, side
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: 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 awakened | discourse |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 afternoon | case |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 afternoon | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 afternoon | det |
| 5 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 awakened | obl |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 awakened | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 awakened | aux:pass |
| 8 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 something | case |
| 10 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 awakened | obl |
| 11 | nudging | nudge | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 something | acl |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 side | nmod:poss |
| 13 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nudging | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 awakened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awaken | past · passive | pi | afternoon | by something | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | nudge | gerund | pi's side | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=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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