The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 124
Of them she ate all she could, and frequently bathed her feet, and kept on up the valley; but every day she went more slowly.
Who acts: plenty · What happens: eat, bath, keep, go · To what, where: feet, valley
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 (plenty), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 2 them | case |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ate | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ate | nsubj |
| 4 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 could | det |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 could | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 ate | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bathed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bathed | cc |
| 10 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 11 bathed | advmod |
| 11 | bathed | bath | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ate | conj |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 feet | nmod:poss |
| 13 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 bathed | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 kept | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 kept | cc |
| 16 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 bathed | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 valley | case |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 valley | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 valley | det |
| 20 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 kept | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 went | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 went | cc |
| 23 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 day | det |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 went | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 went | nsubj |
| 26 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ate | conj |
| 27 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 28 slowly | advmod |
| 28 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 26 went | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | plenty | of roots = root | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of they=Source | ||||
| 2 | bath | past | plenty not said here | plenty's feet | frequently property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | keep | participle | plenty not said here | the valley | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on valley=Location | ||||
| 4 | go | past | plenty | day | slowly property | 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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