The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 148
[1] Of all the games played by men among the Pawnee Indians, none was so popular as the stick game.
Who acts: none · What happens: play, be · To what, where: games
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 (none), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 games | discourse |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 4 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 7 games | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 games | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 games | det |
| 7 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 games | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 men | case |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 played | obl |
| 11 | among | among | ADP | _ | 14 Indians | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Indians | det |
| 13 | Pawnee | Pawnee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Indians | compound |
| 14 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 played | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 popular | punct |
| 16 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 19 popular | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 popular | cop |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 popular | advmod |
| 19 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 games | conj |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 game | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 game | det |
| 22 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 game | compound |
| 23 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 popular | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 games | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | participle | all games not said here | by men; among the Pawnee Indians | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | none | as the stick game; popular property | tree rules |
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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