The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 136
Presently her mother came, and her father, and a great throng of the people, and when she saw them approaching she put her arms around the coyote and kissed him.
Who acts: mother, people · What happens: come, see, approach, put, kiss · To what, where: great throng, people, arms, coyote
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 (mother, 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 father | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 father | cc |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | vocative |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 throng | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 throng | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 throng | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 throng | amod |
| 13 | throng | throng | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 people | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 people | det |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 throng | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 saw | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 saw | cc |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 saw | advmod |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 saw | nsubj |
| 21 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 saw | obj |
| 23 | approaching | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 saw | xcomp |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 put | nsubj |
| 25 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 approaching | ccomp |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 arms | nmod:poss |
| 27 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 put | obj |
| 28 | around | around | ADP | _ | 30 coyote | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 coyote | det |
| 30 | coyote | coyote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 put | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 kissed | cc |
| 32 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 put | conj |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 kissed | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | woman's mother | a great throng of the people | woman's father vocative; presently property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | mother | people | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | approach | gerund | people not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | put | past | mother | woman's arms | around the coyote | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent arm=Theme around coyote=Destination | |||
| 5 | kiss | past | mother not said here | coyote | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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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