The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 36
They packed up again, mounted their horses, and rode around the hill to the lodges.
Who acts: parties · What happens: pack up, mount, ride · To what, where: horses, hill
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 (parties), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 packed | nsubj |
| 2 | packed | pack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 packed | compound:prt |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 packed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mounted | punct |
| 6 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 packed | conj |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 horses | nmod:poss |
| 8 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 mounted | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rode | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 rode | cc |
| 11 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 packed | conj |
| 12 | around | around | ADP | _ | 14 hill | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hill | det |
| 14 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rode | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 lodges | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lodges | det |
| 17 | lodges | lodge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rode | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 packed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pack up | past | parties = party | again | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mount | past | parties = party not said here | parties's horses | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 3 | ride | past | parties = party not said here | the hill | to the lodges | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around hill=Trajectory |
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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