The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 149
This was an athletic contest between pairs of young men, and tested their fleetness, their eyesight, and their skill in throwing the stick.
Who acts: This, skill · What happens: be, test, throw · To what, where: athletic contest, fleetness, stick
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 (This, skill), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 contest | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 contest | cop |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 contest | det |
| 4 | athletic | athletic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 contest | amod |
| 5 | contest | contest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 pairs | case |
| 7 | pairs | pair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 contest | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 men | case |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 men | amod |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pairs | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tested | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 tested | cc |
| 13 | tested | test | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 contest | parataxis |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 fleetness | nmod:poss |
| 15 | fleetness | fleetness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tested | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 eyesight | punct |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 eyesight | nmod:poss |
| 18 | eyesight | eyesight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fleetness | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 skill | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 skill | cc |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 skill | nmod:poss |
| 22 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tested | conj |
| 23 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 24 throwing | mark |
| 24 | throwing | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 skill | acl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 stick | det |
| 26 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 throwing | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 contest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | a athletic contest | between pairs of young men | tree rules | |||
| 2 | test | past | games's fleetness and games's eyesight | games's skill conj | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fleetness=Theme | ||||
| 3 | throw | gerund | games's skill not said here | the stick | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme |
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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