The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 133
She hobbled out to the edge of the brush and called to them, and when they rode up to where she stood, at first they did not know her, she was so worn and thin.
Who acts: woman, people · What happens: hobble out, call, ride up, stand, not know, be · To what, where: edge, brush, people, woman · 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 (woman, people), 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 | 2 hobbled | nsubj |
| 2 | hobbled | hobble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 hobbled | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 edge | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 edge | det |
| 6 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hobbled | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 brush | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 brush | det |
| 9 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 edge | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 called | cc |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 brush | acl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 called | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rode | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 rode | cc |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 rode | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 rode | nsubj |
| 18 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hobbled | conj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 rode | compound:prt |
| 20 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 23 stood | mark |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 stood | advmod |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 stood | nsubj |
| 23 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 rode | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 know | punct |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 first | case |
| 26 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 30 know | obl |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 know | nsubj |
| 28 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 know | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 know | advmod |
| 30 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 stood | parataxis |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 know | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 worn | punct |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 worn | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 worn | cop |
| 35 | so | so | ADV | _ | 36 worn | advmod |
| 36 | worn | worn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 know | conj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 thin | cc |
| 38 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 worn | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hobbled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hobble out | past | woman | the edge of the brush | out property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to edge=Destination | |||
| 2 | call | participle | the brush not said here | people | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | ride up | past | people | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | stand | past | woman | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not know | past · do-support | people | woman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | is | past | woman | worn property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | be | woman not said here | tree rules |
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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