The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 41
Presently the chief came inside and sat down in his accustomed place at the back of the lodge.
Who acts: chief · What happens: come, sit down · To what, where: accustomed place
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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 chief | det |
| 3 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sat | cc |
| 7 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 sat | compound:prt |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 place | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 place | nmod:poss |
| 11 | accustomed | accustomed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 place | amod |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sat | obl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 back | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 back | det |
| 15 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sat | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 lodge | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lodge | det |
| 18 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 back | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the chief | inside, presently property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit down | past | the chief not said here | man's accustomed place | at the back of the lodge | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location |
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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