The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 40
Their little band of horses was quickly divided and led away; and then the chief and all the men had a long talk.
Who acts: chief · What happens: divide, lead away, have · To what, where: little band, long talk
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), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 band | nmod:poss |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 band | amod |
| 3 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 divided | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 horses | case |
| 5 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 band | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 divided | aux:pass |
| 7 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 8 divided | advmod |
| 8 | divided | divide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 led | cc |
| 10 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 divided | conj |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 led | advmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 had | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 had | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 had | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 chief | det |
| 16 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 had | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 men | cc |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 men | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 men | det |
| 20 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 chief | conj |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 divided | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 talk | det |
| 23 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 talk | amod |
| 24 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 had | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 divided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | divide | past · passive | parties's little band of horses | quickly property | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lead away | participle | away property | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | |||||
| 3 | have | past | the chief and all men | a long talk | then | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Patient |
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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