The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 37
The chief invited them to stop with him, and they rode towards the big lodge in the centre of the village, where many people were gathered.
Who acts: chief, parties · What happens: invite, stop, ride, gather · To what, where: parties, centre, many people
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 (chief, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 chief | det |
| 2 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 invited | nsubj |
| 3 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 invited | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 stop | mark |
| 6 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 invited | xcomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stop | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rode | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 rode | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 rode | nsubj |
| 12 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 invited | conj |
| 13 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 16 lodge | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lodge | det |
| 15 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lodge | amod |
| 16 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rode | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 centre | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 centre | det |
| 19 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rode | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 village | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 village | det |
| 22 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 centre | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 gathered | punct |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 gathered | advmod |
| 25 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 people | amod |
| 26 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 gathered | nsubj |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 gathered | aux:pass |
| 28 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 village | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 invited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite | past | the chief | parties = party | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | stop not said to happen | to-infinitive | parties = party not said here | with Wolf | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=Location | ||||
| 3 | ride | past | parties = party | the centre of the village | towards the big lodge | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent towards lodge=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | gather | past · passive | many people | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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