The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 47
One after another, when his turn came, each arose and accompanied his captors without struggle or cry, and met his death as a warrior should.
Who acts: One, each, turn · What happens: come, arise, accompany, cry, meet, die · To what, where: captors, death
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 (One, each, turn), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 came | nsubj |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 another | case |
| 3 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 1 One | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 came | mark |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 turn | nmod:poss |
| 7 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 arose | punct |
| 10 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 arose | nsubj |
| 11 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 accompanied | cc |
| 13 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 arose | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 captors | nmod:poss |
| 15 | captors | captor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 accompanied | obj |
| 16 | without | without | ADP | _ | 17 struggle | case |
| 17 | struggle | struggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 accompanied | obl |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 cry | cc |
| 19 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 struggle | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 met | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 met | cc |
| 22 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | parataxis |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 death | nmod:poss |
| 24 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 met | obj |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 should | mark |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 warrior | det |
| 27 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 should | nsubj |
| 28 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 met | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | One after another | husband's turn nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | arise | past | each | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | accompany | past | each not said here | turn's captors | without struggle | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captor=Theme | |||
| 4 | cry speech: express | infinitive | each not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | meet | past | turn's death | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Co-Agent | |||||
| 6 | die | turn | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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