The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 153

The system of counting was by points, and was somewhat complicated, but in general terms it may be said that the player whose stick lay nearest the ring gained one or more points.

Who acts: system, player, ring · What happens: be, say, lie, gain · To what, where: system, general terms, one · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (system, player, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 system	det
2	system	system	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 complicated	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 counting	case
4	counting	counting	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 system	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 complicated	cop
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 points	case
7	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 was	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 complicated	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 complicated	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 complicated	cop
11	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	12 complicated	advmod
12	complicated	complicated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 terms	case
16	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 terms	amod
17	terms	term	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 said	obl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 said	nsubj
19	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 said	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 said	aux:pass
21	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 complicated	conj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 lay	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 player	det
24	player	player	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lay	nsubj
25	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	26 stick	nmod:poss
26	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lay	nsubj
27	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 said	ccomp
28	nearest	nearest	ADP	_	31 gained	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 ring	det
30	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 gained	nsubj
31	gained	gain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 lay	advcl
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 gained	obj
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 points	cc
34	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	35 points	amod
35	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 one	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 complicated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the system of counting			complicated, somewhat property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	may · passive		system	general terms		tree rules
3	lie	past	the player			stick nsubj	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	gain	past	the ring	one or more points			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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The tree

Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 153