The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 128
One day, while the sun was hottest, the two stopped to rest in a thick patch of brush.
Who acts: sun, two · What happens: be, stop, rest · To what, where: thick patch
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 (sun, two), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hottest | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hottest | punct |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 8 hottest | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sun | det |
| 6 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hottest | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hottest | cop |
| 8 | hottest | hot | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stopped | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 two | det |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 stopped | nsubj |
| 12 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hottest | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 rest | mark |
| 14 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 stopped | xcomp |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 patch | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 patch | det |
| 17 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 patch | amod |
| 18 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rest | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 brush | case |
| 20 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 patch | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hottest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the sun | day | hot property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | stop | past | the two | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | rest | to-infinitive | the two not said here | a thick patch of brush | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in patch=Location |
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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