The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 43
In a moment his hands, feet, and head were severed, and women were pushing and kicking and pounding the mutilated parts here and there, singing as they did so the shrill song of revenge.
Who acts: women, parts, revenge · What happens: sever, push, kick, pound, mutilate, sing · To what, where: mutilated parts, shrill song · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (women, parts, revenge), 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 moment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 severed | obl |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hands | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 moment | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 feet | punct |
| 7 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hands | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 severed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 severed | cc |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 severed | compound |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 severed | aux:pass |
| 12 | severed | sever | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pushing | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 pushing | cc |
| 15 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 pushing | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 pushing | aux |
| 17 | pushing | push | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 severed | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 kicking | cc |
| 19 | kicking | kick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 pushing | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 pounding | cc |
| 21 | pounding | pound | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 pushing | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 parts | det |
| 23 | mutilated | mutilate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 parts | amod |
| 24 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 pounding | obj |
| 25 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 pounding | advmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 there | cc |
| 27 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 here | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 singing | punct |
| 29 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 pushing | advcl |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 did | mark |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 did | nsubj |
| 32 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 singing | ccomp |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 36 song | advmod |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 song | det |
| 35 | shrill | shrill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 song | amod |
| 36 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 did | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 revenge | case |
| 38 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 song | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 severed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sever | past · passive | moment | head compound | vn separate-23.1 «NP V» | ||||
| 2 | push | past · progressive | women | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | kick | gerund | women not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | pound | gerund | women not said here | the mutilated parts | here; there | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Product | |||
| 5 | mutilate | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | sing speech: express | gerund | women not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | do | past | parts = part | the shrill song of revenge | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | sing | revenge | nom song «communication 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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