The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 23

This brought the little party, after three or four days’ travel, to the Cypress Hills, or, as they were named by the Indians, the Gap-in-the-Middle Hills.

Who acts: This, Indians, three days · What happens: bring, name, travel · To what, where: little party, Cypress Hills, parties

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 (This, Indians, three days), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 brought	nsubj
2	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 party	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 party	amod
5	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brought	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 travel	punct
7	after	after	ADP	_	13 travel	case
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 days	nummod
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 four	cc
10	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 three	conj
11	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 travel	nmod:poss
12	’	's	PART	_	11 days	case
13	travel	travel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 party	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Hills	punct
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 Hills	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Hills	det
17	Cypress	Cypress	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Hills	compound
18	Hills	Hill	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 brought	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 named	punct
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 named	cc
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 or	punct
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 named	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 named	nsubj:pass
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 named	aux:pass
25	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 brought	parataxis
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 Indians	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Indians	det
28	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	25 named	obl:agent
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 Hills	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Hills	det
31	Gap	Gap	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Hills	nsubj
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 Hills	punct
33	in	in	ADP	_	38 Hills	case
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 in	punct
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Hills	det
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 the	punct
37	Middle	Middle	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Hills	compound
38	Hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 Indians	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	bring	past	This	the little party and three days's travel	the Cypress Hills	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent party=Theme to hill=Destination
2	name	past · passive	the Indians and the Middle Hills Gap	parties = party		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
3	travel		three days			nom travel «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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 Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 23