The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 2
She was young and handsome and of good family, and her parents were well-to-do, for her father was a leading warrior of his tribe.
Who acts: Su, parents, father · What happens: be, lead
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 (Su, parents, father), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 young | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 young | cop |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 handsome | cc |
| 5 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 young | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 family | cc |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 family | case |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 family | amod |
| 9 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 young | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 do | cc |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 parents | nmod:poss |
| 13 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 do | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | cop |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 do | advmod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 do | case |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 to | punct |
| 19 | do | do | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 young | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 warrior | punct |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 warrior | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 father | nmod:poss |
| 23 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 warrior | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 warrior | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 warrior | det |
| 26 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 warrior | amod |
| 27 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 do | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 tribe | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 tribe | nmod:poss |
| 30 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 warrior | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 young | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Su | good family conj; young property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Su not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | Su's parents | to do; well property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lead | gerund | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||||
| 5 | is | past | Su's father | for a leading warrior; of Wolf's tribe | 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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