The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 142
He licked her face and whined, and as her mother and father approached he slowly moved away, looking back many, many times.
Who acts: coyote, mother · What happens: lick, whine, approach, move away, look back · To what, where: face
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, mother), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 licked | nsubj |
| 2 | licked | lick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 face | nmod:poss |
| 4 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 licked | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 whined | cc |
| 6 | whined | whine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 licked | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 approached | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 approached | cc |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 approached | mark |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 approached | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 father | cc |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mother | conj |
| 14 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 licked | parataxis |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 moved | nsubj |
| 16 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 17 moved | advmod |
| 17 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 approached | conj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 moved | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 looking | punct |
| 20 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 moved | advcl |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 looking | advmod |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 times | amod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 many | punct |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 times | amod |
| 25 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 looking | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 licked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lick | past | coyote | woman's face | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent face=Source | ||||
| 2 | whine | past | coyote not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | approach | past | woman's mother and father | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | move away | past | coyote | away, slowly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | look back | gerund | coyote not said here | time | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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