The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 72
When the people are all asleep, and the evening fire has died out, leave your bed as quietly as you can, pick up the pouch, and hurry away in the direction from which you came.”
Who acts: people, evening fire, you · What happens: be, die out, leave, pick up, hurry away, come · To what, where: bed, pouch, direction
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 (people, evening fire, you), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 asleep | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 asleep | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 asleep | cop |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 asleep | advmod |
| 6 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 leave | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 died | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 died | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fire | det |
| 10 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fire | compound |
| 11 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 died | nsubj |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 died | aux |
| 13 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 asleep | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 died | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 leave | punct |
| 16 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 bed | nmod:poss |
| 18 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 leave | obj |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 quietly | advmod |
| 20 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 16 leave | advmod |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 can | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 can | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 quietly | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 pick | punct |
| 25 | pick | pick | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 leave | parataxis |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 pick | compound:prt |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 pouch | det |
| 28 | pouch | pouch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pick | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 hurry | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 hurry | cc |
| 31 | hurry | hurry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 leave | conj |
| 32 | away | away | ADV | _ | 31 hurry | advmod |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 direction | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 direction | det |
| 35 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 hurry | obl |
| 36 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 which | case |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 came | obl |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 came | nsubj |
| 39 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 direction | acl:relcl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 leave | punct |
| 41 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the people | all, asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | die out | present · perfect | the evening fire | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | leave | imperative | you not said here | your bed | quietly property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Theme | |||
| 4 | pick up | infinitive | the pouch | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pouch=Topic | |||||
| 5 | hurry away | infinitive | you not said here | the direction | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory | |||
| 6 | come | past | you | the direction | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from which=Initial_Location |
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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