The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 131
She was awakened by the coyote jerking her gown and whining, and she sat up and listened.
Who acts: coyote, woman · What happens: awaken, jerk, sit up, listen · To what, where: woman, gown
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, woman), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 awakened | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 awakened | aux:pass |
| 3 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 coyote | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 coyote | det |
| 6 | coyote | coyote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 awakened | obl |
| 7 | jerking | jerk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 coyote | acl |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 gown | nmod:poss |
| 9 | gown | gown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 jerking | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 whining | cc |
| 11 | whining | whining | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gown | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sat | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sat | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sat | nsubj |
| 15 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 awakened | parataxis |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 sat | compound:prt |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 listened | cc |
| 18 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sat | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 awakened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awaken | past · passive | the coyote | woman | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | jerk | gerund | the coyote not said here | woman's gown and whining | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gown=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sit up | past | woman | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | listen | past | woman not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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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