The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 38
There they dismounted, when suddenly their arms were taken from them by the surrounding crowd, and they were pushed into the big lodge.
Who acts: parties, surrounding crowd · What happens: dismount, take, surround, push · To what, where: arms, parties, big lodge
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, surrounding crowd), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 dismounted | expl |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dismounted | nsubj |
| 3 | dismounted | dismount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dismounted | punct |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 taken | mark |
| 6 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 10 taken | advmod |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 arms | nmod:poss |
| 8 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 taken | aux:pass |
| 10 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 dismounted | advcl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 taken | obl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 crowd | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 crowd | det |
| 15 | surrounding | surround | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 crowd | amod |
| 16 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 taken | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 pushed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 pushed | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 pushed | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 pushed | aux:pass |
| 21 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 dismounted | conj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 lodge | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 lodge | det |
| 24 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 lodge | amod |
| 25 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pushed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dismounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dismount | past | parties = party | there | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take | past · passive | the surrounding crowd | parties's arms | from parties = party; suddenly property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme from they=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | surround | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | push | past · passive | parties = party | the big lodge | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into lodge=Destination |
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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