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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 65

If she sat in the lodge, the scalp-song rang in her ears; if she stepped outside, the bodies of her husband and friends greeted her eyes.

Who acts: Su, scalp song, bodies · What happens: sit, ring, step, greet · To what, where: lodge, ears, eyes

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 (Su, scalp song, bodies), 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

marknsubjadvclcasedetoblpunctdetcompoundpunctnsubjcasenmod:possoblpunctmarknsubjconjadvmodpunctdetnsubjcasenmod:possnmodccconjadvclnmod:possobjpunctrootIfSCONJshePRONsatVERBinADPtheDETlodgeNOUN,PUNCTtheDETscalpNOUN-PUNCTsongNOUNrangVERBinADPherPRONearsNOUN;PUNCTifSCONJshePRONsteppedVERBoutsideADV,PUNCTtheDETbodiesNOUNofADPherPRONhusbandNOUNandCCONJfriendsNOUNgreetedVERBherPRONeyesNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IfifSCONJ_3 satmark
2sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 satnsubj
3satsitVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 rangadvcl
4ininADP_6 lodgecase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 lodgedet
6lodgelodgeNOUNNumber=Sing3 satobl
7,,PUNCT_3 satpunct
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 songdet
9scalpscalpNOUNNumber=Sing11 songcompound
10--PUNCT_9 scalppunct
11songsongNOUNNumber=Sing12 rangnsubj
12rangringVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
13ininADP_15 earscase
14herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs15 earsnmod:poss
15earsearNOUNNumber=Plur12 rangobl
16;;PUNCT_19 steppedpunct
17ififSCONJ_19 steppedmark
18sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 steppednsubj
19steppedstepVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 rangconj
20outsideoutsideADV_19 steppedadvmod
21,,PUNCT_23 bodiespunct
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 bodiesdet
23bodiesbodyNOUNNumber=Plur29 greetednsubj
24ofofADP_26 husbandcase
25herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 husbandnmod:poss
26husbandhusbandNOUNNumber=Sing23 bodiesnmod
27andandCCONJ_28 friendscc
28friendsfriendNOUNNumber=Plur26 husbandconj
29greetedgreetVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 steppedadvcl
30herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs31 eyesnmod:poss
31eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur29 greetedobj
32..PUNCT_12 rangpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1sit a condition, not said to happenpastSuthe lodgevn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in lodge=Location
2ringpastthe scalp songSu's earsvn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location
3step a condition, not said to happenpastSuoutside propertyvn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4greet speech: greetpastthe bodies of Su's husband and friendsSu's eyesvn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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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