The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 112

She talked to him all the time, telling him what had happened, and what she wished to do; and he seemed to understand, for when she started to leave the spring he bounded on ahead, often stopping and looking back, as much as to say, “Come on; this is the way.”

Who acts: doubt, animal, this · What happens: talk, tell, happen, wish, do, seem · To what, where: animal, spring, much, way · Speech: someone speaks here

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, animal, this), 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 talked	nsubj
2	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 talked	obl
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 time	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talked	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 telling	punct
9	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 talked	parataxis
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 telling	iobj
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 happened	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 happened	aux
13	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 telling	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 what	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 what	cc
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 happened	obl
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wished	nsubj
18	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 what	acl:relcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 do	mark
20	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 wished	xcomp
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 seemed	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 seemed	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 seemed	nsubj
24	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 talked	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	26 understand	mark
26	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 seemed	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 started	punct
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 started	mark
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 started	advmod
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 started	nsubj
31	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 seemed	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 leave	mark
33	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 started	xcomp
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 spring	det
35	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 leave	obj
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 bounded	nsubj
37	bounded	bound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 spring	acl:relcl
38	on	on	ADP	_	39 ahead	case
39	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	37 bounded	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 stopping	punct
41	often	often	ADV	_	42 stopping	advmod
42	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 leave	advcl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 looking	cc
44	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 stopping	conj
45	back	back	ADV	_	44 looking	advmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 much	punct
47	as	as	ADV	_	48 much	advmod
48	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 stopping	obj
49	as	as	SCONJ	_	51 say	mark
50	to	to	PART	_	51 say	mark
51	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 much	acl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 Come	punct
53	“	"	PUNCT	_	54 Come	punct
54	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 say	ccomp
55	on	on	ADV	_	54 Come	advmod
56	;	;	PUNCT	_	60 way	punct
57	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	60 way	nsubj
58	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	60 way	cop
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 way	det
60	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talked	parataxis
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	60 way	punct
62	”	"	PUNCT	_	60 way	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past	doubt		animal	time		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	gerund			animal			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	happen	past · perfect					what nsubj	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	wish	past	doubt					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	doubt not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	seem	past	animal					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
7	understand	to-infinitive	animal not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	start	past	doubt					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
9	leave	to-infinitive	doubt not said here			spring		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	bound	past	animal	the spring not said here				tree rules
11	stop	gerund	doubt not said here	much			often property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality much=Eventuality
12	look back	gerund	doubt not said here					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
13	say speech: assert	to-infinitive						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
14	come on in a quote	infinitive						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
15	is a in a quote	present	this	the way				tree rules

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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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 112