The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 143

Su-yé-sai-pi cried—cried at parting with her faithful guide, and because at sight of her mother all her trials and sufferings came back to her mind.

Who acts: Su, mother · What happens: cry, come back, sight, try, mind · To what, where: parting, sight, mother

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 (Su, 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	Su	Su	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 cried	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Su	punct
3	yé	yé	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Su	appos
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 yé	punct
5	sai	sai	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pi	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 sai	punct
7	pi	pi	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cried	nsubj
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	—	-	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cried	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 parting	case
12	parting	parting	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cried	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 guide	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 guide	nmod:poss
15	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 guide	amod
16	guide	guide	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cried	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 came	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 came	cc
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	30 came	mark
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 sight	case
21	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 came	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 mother	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 mother	nmod:poss
24	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sight	nmod
25	all	all	ADV	_	27 trials	advmod
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 trials	nmod:poss
27	trials	trial	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 mother	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 sufferings	cc
29	sufferings	suffering	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 trials	conj
30	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cried	conj
31	back	back	ADV	_	30 came	advmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 mind	case
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 mind	nmod:poss
34	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 came	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Su			sai pi nsubj	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	past	Su not said here		parting	with pi's faithful guide	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at parting=Location
3	come back	past	Su not said here		sight of pi's mother mother's trials and sufferings	to mother's mind	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mind=Initial_Location
4	sight			pi's mother mother's trials and sufferings			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient
5	try		mother				nom trial «act transitive»: poss=agent
6	mind		mother				nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 143