The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 46
Presently another one of the young Blackfeet was led out, and met the fate of the first one.
What happens: lead out, meet, fate · To what, where: one, fate, first one
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: 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 | _ | 3 one | advmod |
| 2 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 one | det |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 led | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Blackfeet | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Blackfeet | det |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Blackfeet | amod |
| 7 | Blackfeet | Blackfeet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 one | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 led | aux:pass |
| 9 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 led | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 met | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 met | cc |
| 13 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 led | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fate | det |
| 15 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 met | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 one | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 one | det |
| 18 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 one | amod |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fate | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead out | past · passive | another one of the young Blackfeet | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | meet | past | the fate of the first one | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fate=Co-Agent | |||||
| 3 | fate | the first one | nom fate «event transitive»: of=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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