The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 118
He would wait for her at the top of a ridge, where they would sit and rest awhile, and as soon as she was ready to go on he would run to the top of the next rise before she had taken fifty steps.
Who acts: yé, objects, pi · What happens: wait, sit, rest, be, go, run · To what, where: top, fifty steps
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, objects, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wait | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 wait | aux |
| 3 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wait | obl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 top | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 top | det |
| 8 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wait | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 ridge | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 ridge | det |
| 11 | ridge | ridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 top | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sit | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 sit | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sit | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 sit | aux |
| 16 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wait | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 rest | cc |
| 18 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 sit | conj |
| 19 | awhile | awhile | ADV | _ | 18 rest | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 ready | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 ready | cc |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | _ | 23 soon | advmod |
| 23 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 ready | advmod |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 ready | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 ready | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 ready | cop |
| 27 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sit | conj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 go | mark |
| 29 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 ready | xcomp |
| 30 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 33 run | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 run | nsubj |
| 32 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 run | aux |
| 33 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 go | advcl |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 top | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 top | det |
| 36 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 run | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 rise | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 rise | det |
| 39 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 rise | amod |
| 40 | rise | rise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 top | nmod |
| 41 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 44 taken | mark |
| 42 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 taken | nsubj |
| 43 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 taken | aux |
| 44 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 run | advcl |
| 45 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 46 steps | nummod |
| 46 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 taken | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | would | yé | the top of a ridge | for pi | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at top=Location | |||
| 2 | sit | would | objects = object | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | rest | infinitive | objects = object not said here | awhile property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | pi | ready, soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go | to-infinitive | pi not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | run | would | yé | to the top of the next rise result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to top=Result | ||||
| 7 | take | past · perfect | pi | fifty steps | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=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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