The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 152
This was not often done, but the players constantly hit the ring with their sticks and knocked it down, so that it ceased to roll.
Who acts: players, ring · What happens: not do, hit, knock down, cease, roll · To what, where: This, ring
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 (players, ring), 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 done | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux:pass |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 done | advmod |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 done | advmod |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hit | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 hit | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 players | det |
| 9 | players | player | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hit | nsubj |
| 10 | constantly | constantly | ADV | _ | 11 hit | advmod |
| 11 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ring | det |
| 13 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hit | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 sticks | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 sticks | nmod:poss |
| 16 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 ring | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 knocked | cc |
| 18 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 hit | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 knocked | obj |
| 20 | down | down | ADP | _ | 18 knocked | compound:prt |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 ceased | punct |
| 22 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 25 ceased | mark |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 so | fixed |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 ceased | nsubj |
| 25 | ceased | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 hit | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 roll | mark |
| 27 | roll | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 ceased | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | past · passive | This | often property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | hit | past | the players | the ring | with motions's sticks; constantly property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent ring=Patient with stick=Instrument | |||
| 3 | knock down | past | the players not said here | ring | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | cease | past | ring | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | roll | to-infinitive | ring not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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