The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 6
After their marriage the young couple continued to live in the Piegan camp, for Front Wolf had many friends there of his own age, who begged him to remain with them.
Who acts: young couple, Front Wolf, own age, camps · What happens: continue, live, have, beg, remain, marry · To what, where: Piegan camp, many friends, Wolf
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 (young couple, Front Wolf, own age, camps), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 marriage | case |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 3 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 continued | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 couple | det |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 couple | amod |
| 6 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 continued | nsubj |
| 7 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 live | mark |
| 9 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 continued | xcomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 camp | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 camp | det |
| 12 | Piegan | Piegan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 camp | compound |
| 13 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 live | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 had | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 had | mark |
| 16 | Front | Front | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Wolf | compound |
| 17 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 had | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 continued | conj |
| 19 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 friends | amod |
| 20 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 had | obj |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 friends | advmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 age | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 age | nmod:poss |
| 24 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 age | amod |
| 25 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 friends | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 begged | punct |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 begged | nsubj |
| 28 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 age | acl:relcl |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 begged | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 remain | mark |
| 31 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 begged | xcomp |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 them | case |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 remain | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | the young couple | after camps's marriage | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | live | to-infinitive | the young couple not said here | the Piegan camp | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in camp=Location | ||||
| 3 | have | past | Front Wolf | many friends of Wolf's own age | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient | ||||
| 4 | beg speech: request | past | Wolf's own age | Wolf | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | remain not said to happen | to-infinitive | Wolf's own age not said here | with camps = camp | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | marry | camps = camp | nom marriage «state transitive»: 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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