The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 105
She lay motionless a little while, and then could bear the suspense no longer; slowly rising up and turning back her robe, what should she find lying by her side but a coyote, looking up into her face and wagging his tail!
Who acts: pi, robe · What happens: lie, bear, rise up, turn back, find, look up · To what, where: suspense, robe, tail
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 (pi, robe), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lay | nsubj |
| 2 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | motionless | motionless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 lay | xcomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 while | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 while | amod |
| 6 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lay | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bear | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bear | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 bear | advmod |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 bear | aux |
| 11 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 lay | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 suspense | det |
| 13 | suspense | suspense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bear | obj |
| 14 | no | no | ADV | _ | 15 longer | advmod |
| 15 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 bear | advmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 rising | punct |
| 17 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 18 rising | advmod |
| 18 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 lay | advcl |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 rising | compound:prt |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 turning | cc |
| 21 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 rising | conj |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 turning | advmod |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 robe | nmod:poss |
| 24 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 turning | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 find | punct |
| 26 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 29 find | obj |
| 27 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 find | aux |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 find | nsubj |
| 29 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 robe | acl:relcl |
| 30 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 find | xcomp |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 side | case |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 side | nmod:poss |
| 33 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lying | obl |
| 34 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 coyote | cc |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 coyote | det |
| 36 | coyote | coyote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 side | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 looking | punct |
| 38 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 lying | conj |
| 39 | up | up | ADP | _ | 38 looking | compound:prt |
| 40 | into | into | ADP | _ | 42 face | case |
| 41 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 face | nmod:poss |
| 42 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 looking | obl |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 wagging | cc |
| 44 | wagging | wag | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 lying | conj |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 tail | nmod:poss |
| 46 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 wagging | obj |
| 47 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | pi | while | motionless property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | bear | could | pi not said here | the suspense | then | long property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suspense=Patient | ||
| 3 | rise up | gerund | pi not said here | slowly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | turn back | gerund | pi not said here | pi's robe | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robe=Theme | ||||
| 5 | find | should | pi | pi's robe | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 6 | lie | gerund | pi's robe not said here | by pi's side but a coyote | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location | ||||
| 7 | look up | gerund | pi's robe not said here | into pi's face | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into face=Theme | ||||
| 8 | wag | gerund | pi's robe not said here | face's tail | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient |
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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