The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 54
The woman now thought that her turn had come, but the executioners did not return.
Who acts: woman, turn, executioners · What happens: think, come, not return · 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 (woman, turn, executioners), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 woman | det |
| 2 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 thought | advmod |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 come | mark |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 turn | nmod:poss |
| 7 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | aux |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 return | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 return | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 executioners | det |
| 13 | executioners | executioner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 return | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 return | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 return | advmod |
| 16 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 come | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the woman | now | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past · perfect | woman's turn | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not return | past · do-support | the executioners | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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