The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 4
In those days, in the long ago, such inter-tribal marriages were common, for the two great camps often travelled together in quest of the buffalo, sometimes for a whole winter and summer, and thus the young people became acquainted with each other.
Who acts: such inter tribal marriages, two great camps, young people, buffalo · What happens: be, travel, become, quest · To what, where: quest
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 (such inter tribal marriages, two great camps, young people, buffalo), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 days | det |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 common | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 days | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 common | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 common | det |
| 7 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 ago | advmod |
| 8 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 16 common | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 marriages | punct |
| 10 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 marriages | amod |
| 11 | inter | inter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 marriages | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 inter | punct |
| 13 | tribal | tribal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 marriages | amod |
| 14 | marriages | marriage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 common | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 common | cop |
| 16 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 camps | punct |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 camps | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 camps | det |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 camps | nummod |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 camps | amod |
| 22 | camps | camp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 travelled | nsubj |
| 23 | often | often | ADV | _ | 24 travelled | advmod |
| 24 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 common | parataxis |
| 25 | together | together | ADV | _ | 24 travelled | advmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 quest | case |
| 27 | quest | quest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 travelled | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 buffalo | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 buffalo | det |
| 30 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 quest | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 winter | punct |
| 32 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 36 winter | advmod |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 winter | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 winter | det |
| 35 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 winter | amod |
| 36 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 travelled | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 summer | cc |
| 38 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 winter | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 became | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 became | cc |
| 41 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 45 became | advmod |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 people | det |
| 43 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 people | amod |
| 44 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 became | nsubj |
| 45 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 common | conj |
| 46 | acquainted | acquainted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 became | xcomp |
| 47 | with | with | ADP | _ | 48 each | case |
| 48 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 46 acquainted | obl |
| 49 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 each | fixed |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 common | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | such inter tribal marriages | day | ago, common property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | travel | past | the two great camps | quest of the buffalo | winter | often, together property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in quest=Trajectory | ||
| 3 | become | past | the young people | acquainted, thus property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | quest | the buffalo | nom quest «cognition intransitive»: of=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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