The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 22
The northern tribe was thought to be summering on the Red Deer River, and a course was roughly taken for the place where it joins the Saskatchewan.
Who acts: course · What happens: think, summer, take, join · To what, where: northern tribe, Red Deer River, course, Saskatchewan
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 (course), 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 | 3 tribe | det |
| 2 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tribe | amod |
| 3 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | aux:pass |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 summering | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 summering | aux |
| 8 | summering | summer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 thought | advcl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 River | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 River | det |
| 11 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 River | flat |
| 12 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 River | compound |
| 13 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 summering | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 taken | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 taken | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 course | det |
| 17 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 taken | aux:pass |
| 19 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 20 taken | advmod |
| 20 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 thought | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 place | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 place | det |
| 23 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 taken | obl |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 joins | advmod |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 joins | nsubj |
| 26 | joins | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 place | acl:relcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Saskatchewan | det |
| 28 | Saskatchewan | Saskatchewan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 joins | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past · passive | the northern tribe | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | summer | to-infinitive · progressive | the Red Deer River | vn weekend-56 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on river=Location | |||||
| 3 | take | past · passive | a course | for the place; roughly property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for place=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | join | present | course | the Saskatchewan | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saskatchewan=Patient |
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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