The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 139
Every time we move camp my father’s lodge shall be the last to go; and when the rest and the dogs have all left, we will leave food for you where our lodge stood.
Who acts: we, lodge, you · What happens: move, be, go, leave, stand · To what, where: camp, rest, food
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 (we, lodge, you), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 move | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 move | nsubj |
| 4 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 move | obj |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 father | nmod:poss |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lodge | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 father | case |
| 9 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 last | nsubj |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 last | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 last | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 last | det |
| 13 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 move | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 go | mark |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 last | xcomp |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 leave | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 leave | cc |
| 18 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 26 left | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rest | det |
| 20 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 left | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 dogs | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 dogs | det |
| 23 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 rest | conj |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 left | aux |
| 25 | all | all | ADV | _ | 26 left | advmod |
| 26 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 leave | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 left | punct |
| 28 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 leave | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 leave | aux |
| 30 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 move | conj |
| 31 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 leave | obj |
| 32 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 37 stood | mark |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 stood | nsubj |
| 34 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 37 stood | advmod |
| 35 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 lodge | nmod:poss |
| 36 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 stood | nsubj |
| 37 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 leave | advcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 move | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | present | we | camp | time | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent camp=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | shall | my father's lodge | last property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | my father's lodge not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | leave | present · perfect · passive | the rest and the dogs | all property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | leave | future | we | food | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme | ||||
| 6 | stand | past | you | our lodge nsubj | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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