The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 110
The little animal kept wagging his tail, and when she arose and went again to the spring, he followed her.
Who acts: little animal, doubt, animal · What happens: keep, wag, arise, go, follow · To what, where: tail, doubt
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 (little animal, doubt, animal), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 animal | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 animal | amod |
| 3 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kept | nsubj |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | wagging | wag | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 kept | xcomp |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 tail | nmod:poss |
| 7 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wagging | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 arose | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 arose | cc |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 arose | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 arose | nsubj |
| 12 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kept | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 arose | conj |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 spring | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 spring | det |
| 18 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 followed | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 followed | nsubj |
| 21 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kept | conj |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 followed | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | the little animal | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | wag | gerund | the little animal not said here | animal's tail | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | ||||
| 3 | arise | past | doubt | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go | past | doubt not said here | again; spring | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | follow | past | animal | doubt | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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