The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 111
She drank, and then ate a little dried meat, not forgetting to give him some, which he hastily devoured.
Who acts: doubt, some · What happens: drink, eat, dry, not forget, give, devour · To what, where: little dried meat, animal
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 (doubt, some), 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 drank | nsubj |
| 2 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ate | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 ate | cc |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 ate | advmod |
| 6 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drank | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 meat | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 meat | amod |
| 9 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 meat | amod |
| 10 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ate | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 forgetting | punct |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 forgetting | advmod |
| 13 | forgetting | forget | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 ate | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 give | mark |
| 15 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 forgetting | xcomp |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 give | iobj |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 devoured | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 devoured | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 devoured | obj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 devoured | nsubj |
| 21 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 22 devoured | advmod |
| 22 | devoured | devour | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 give | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | past | doubt | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | eat | past | doubt not said here | a little dried meat | then | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient | |||
| 3 | dry | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | not forget | gerund | doubt not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | give | to-infinitive | doubt not said here | animal | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 6 | devour | past | some | which obj; animal nsubj; hastily property | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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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