The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 154
In this story, the Buffalo by their mysterious power transformed the girl into a ring, which they used in playing the stick game.
Who acts: Buffalo, points · What happens: transform, use, play · To what, where: girl, story, ring, stick game
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 (Buffalo, points), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 story | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 transformed | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 story | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Buffalo | det |
| 6 | Buffalo | Buffalo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 transformed | nsubj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 power | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 power | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 power | amod |
| 10 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Buffalo | nmod |
| 11 | transformed | transform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 girl | det |
| 13 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 transformed | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 ring | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 ring | det |
| 16 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 transformed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 used | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 used | obj |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 used | nsubj |
| 20 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 ring | acl:relcl |
| 21 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 22 playing | mark |
| 22 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 used | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 game | det |
| 24 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 game | compound |
| 25 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 playing | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 transformed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | transform | past | the Buffalo by points's mysterious power | the girl | this story | into a ring result | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent girl=Patient into ring=Result | ||
| 2 | use | past | points = point | a ring | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient | ||||
| 3 | play | gerund | points = point not said here | the stick game | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=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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