The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 21
At the last moment five young Blackfeet, visitors in the camp, decided that they too would return home, so they set forth with the couple, and helped drive the little herd of horses that Front Wolf intended to give his relatives.
Who acts: camps, Front · What happens: decide, return, set, help, drive, intend · To what, where: little herd, horses, relatives
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 (camps, Front), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 moment | amod |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 decided | obl |
| 5 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 Blackfeet | nummod |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Blackfeet | amod |
| 7 | Blackfeet | blackfoot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 moment | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 visitors | punct |
| 9 | visitors | visitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Blackfeet | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 camp | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 camp | det |
| 12 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 visitors | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 moment | punct |
| 14 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 return | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 return | nsubj |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 return | advmod |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 return | aux |
| 19 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 decided | ccomp |
| 20 | home | home | ADV | _ | 19 return | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 set | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 set | advmod |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 set | nsubj |
| 24 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 decided | conj |
| 25 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 24 set | advmod |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 couple | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 couple | det |
| 28 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 set | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 helped | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 helped | cc |
| 31 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 decided | conj |
| 32 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 helped | xcomp |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 herd | det |
| 34 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 herd | amod |
| 35 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 drive | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 horses | case |
| 37 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 herd | nmod |
| 38 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 intended | obj |
| 39 | Front | Front | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 intended | nsubj |
| 40 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Front | flat |
| 41 | intended | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 horses | acl:relcl |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 give | mark |
| 43 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 intended | xcomp |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 relatives | nmod:poss |
| 45 | relatives | relative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 give | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past | moment | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | return | would | camps = camp | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | set | present | camps = camp | with the couple; forth property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with couple=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | help | past | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | drive | infinitive | the little herd of horses | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme herd=Trajectory | |||||
| 6 | intend | past | Front | horses | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | Front not said here | Front's relatives | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relative=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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