The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 126
When he thought she had sat still too long, he would whine and paw at her dress, and look away up the stream, urging her to go on.
Who acts: coyote, plenty · What happens: think, sit, whine, look away, urge, go on · To what, where: plenty · 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 (coyote, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 thought | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 whine | advcl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sat | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sat | aux |
| 6 | sat | sit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 long | advmod |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 long | advmod |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sat | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 whine | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 whine | aux |
| 13 | whine | whine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 paw | cc |
| 15 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 whine | conj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 dress | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 dress | nmod:poss |
| 18 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 whine | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 look | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 look | cc |
| 21 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 whine | conj |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 look | advmod |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 stream | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 stream | det |
| 25 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 look | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 urging | punct |
| 27 | urging | urge | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 look | advcl |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 urging | obj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 go | mark |
| 30 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 urging | xcomp |
| 31 | on | on | ADV | _ | 30 go | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 whine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | coyote | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sit | past · perfect | plenty | long property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | whine | would | coyote | at plenty's dress; paw conj | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at dress=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | look away | infinitive | coyote not said here | up the stream; away property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent up stream=Theme | ||||
| 5 | urge | gerund | coyote not said here | plenty | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | go on not said to happen | to-infinitive | coyote not said here | vn function-105.2.1 «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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