The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 122
The pouch had long been empty, and Su-yé-sai-pi was weak from hunger, and her weary feet were swollen and blistered, for the last pair of moccasins had been worn out.
Who acts: pouch, yé sai pi · What happens: be, swell, blister, wear out · To what, where: hunger, weary feet, last pair
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 (pouch, yé sai 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pouch | det |
| 2 | pouch | pouch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 empty | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 empty | aux |
| 4 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 empty | advmod |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 empty | cop |
| 6 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 weak | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 weak | cc |
| 9 | Su | Su | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 yé | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Su | punct |
| 11 | yé | yé | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pi | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 yé | punct |
| 13 | sai | sai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pi | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 sai | punct |
| 15 | pi | pi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 weak | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 weak | cop |
| 17 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 empty | conj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 hunger | case |
| 19 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 weak | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 swollen | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 swollen | cc |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 feet | nmod:poss |
| 23 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 feet | amod |
| 24 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 swollen | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 swollen | aux:pass |
| 26 | swollen | swell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 empty | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 blistered | cc |
| 28 | blistered | blister | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 swollen | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 pair | punct |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 pair | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 pair | det |
| 32 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 pair | amod |
| 33 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 swollen | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 moccasins | case |
| 35 | moccasins | moccasin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 worn | obl |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 worn | aux |
| 37 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 38 worn | aux:pass |
| 38 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 pair | acl:relcl |
| 39 | out | out | ADP | _ | 38 worn | compound:prt |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 empty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | the pouch | empty, long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | yé sai pi | hunger | weak property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | swell | past · passive | pi's weary feet | for the last pair | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: subject=Extent | ||||
| 4 | blister | participle | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | wear out | past · perfect · passive | the last pair not said here | of moccasins | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: of moccasin=Source |
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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