The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 125
The stops for rest were more frequent now, and the coyote showed that he was beginning to feel uneasy.
Who acts: The, rest, coyote · What happens: stop, be, show, begin, feel · 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 (The, rest, coyote), 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 stops | nsubj |
| 2 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 frequent | mark |
| 4 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 frequent | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 frequent | cop |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 frequent | advmod |
| 7 | frequent | frequent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 stops | advcl |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 frequent | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 showed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 showed | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 coyote | det |
| 12 | coyote | coyote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 showed | nsubj |
| 13 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stops | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 beginning | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 beginning | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 beginning | aux |
| 17 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 showed | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 feel | mark |
| 19 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 beginning | xcomp |
| 20 | uneasy | uneasy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 feel | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stops | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | The | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | is | past | rest | now | frequent property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | show | past | the coyote | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | begin | past · progressive | coyote | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | feel | to-infinitive | coyote not said here | uneasy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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