The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 63
Of course it was a lie, for he had no thought of making peace, but intended to keep the woman.
Who acts: course, Piegan, thought · What happens: be, have, make, intend, keep · To what, where: lie, thought, peace, woman
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 (course, Piegan, thought), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 2 course | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lie | obl |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 lie | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lie | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lie | det |
| 6 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 had | case |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lie | parataxis |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 thought | det |
| 12 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 13 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 14 making | mark |
| 14 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 thought | acl |
| 15 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 making | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 intended | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 intended | cc |
| 18 | intended | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 had | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 keep | mark |
| 20 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 intended | xcomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 woman | det |
| 22 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 keep | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lie | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | course | a lie | of course | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | past | Piegan | no thought | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | gerund | no thought not said here | peace | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset peace=Product | ||||
| 4 | intend | past | Piegan not said here | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | Piegan not said here | the woman | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=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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