The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 144
They placed her on the travois and drew her to camp, where all the people came to sympathize with her, bringing something from their store of choice food as presents.
Who acts: sufferings, people · What happens: place, draw, camp, come, sympathize, bring · To what, where: mother, travois, something, store
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 (sufferings, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 placed | nsubj |
| 2 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 placed | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 travois | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 travois | det |
| 6 | travois | travois | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 placed | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 drew | cc |
| 8 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 placed | conj |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 drew | iobj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 camp | mark |
| 11 | camp | camp | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 drew | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 came | advmod |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 people | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 people | det |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 camp | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 sympathize | mark |
| 19 | sympathize | sympathize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 came | xcomp |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sympathize | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bringing | punct |
| 23 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 sympathize | advcl |
| 24 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 23 bringing | obj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 store | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 store | nmod:poss |
| 27 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bringing | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 food | case |
| 29 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 food | compound |
| 30 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 store | nmod |
| 31 | as | as | ADP | _ | 32 presents | case |
| 32 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 bringing | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | sufferings = suffering | mother | the travois | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme on travois=Destination | |||
| 2 | draw | past | sufferings = suffering not said here | mother | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | camp | to-infinitive | sufferings = suffering not said here | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come | past | all people | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | sympathize | to-infinitive | all people not said here | with mother | vn empathize-88.2 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer with she=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | bring | gerund | all people not said here | something | sufferings's store of choice food | as presents | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent something=Theme from store=Initial_Location |
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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