The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 114
Su-yé-sai-pi was frightened, thinking he had sighted the Kutenais, and she ran after him as fast as she could go.
Who acts: yé, pi · What happens: frighten, think, sight, run, go · To what, where: Su · 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 (yé, pi), 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 | Su | Su | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Su | punct |
| 3 | yé | yé | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Su | appos |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 yé | punct |
| 5 | sai | sai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pi | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 sai | punct |
| 7 | pi | pi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 frightened | aux:pass |
| 9 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thinking | punct |
| 11 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 frightened | conj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sighted | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sighted | aux |
| 14 | sighted | sight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 thinking | ccomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Kutenais | det |
| 16 | Kutenais | Kutenai | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 sighted | obl:agent |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ran | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ran | cc |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 ran | nsubj |
| 20 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 frightened | conj |
| 21 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 ran | obl |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 fast | advmod |
| 24 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 ran | advmod |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 go | mark |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 go | nsubj |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 go | aux |
| 28 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 fast | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | past · passive | Su | sai pi nsubj:pass | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | sight | past · perfect | yé | the Kutenais obl:agent | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | run | past | pi | after yé | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | go | could | pi | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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