The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 76
It seemed as if night would never come, and then as if the people would never stop talking and feasting and go to bed.
Who acts: It, people · What happens: seem, not come, not stop, talk, go · To what, where: bed
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 (It, people), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seemed | nsubj |
| 2 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 come | mark |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 come | mark |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 come | aux |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 come | advmod |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 seemed | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stop | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 stop | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 stop | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 stop | mark |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 stop | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 people | det |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 stop | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 stop | aux |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 stop | advmod |
| 18 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 seemed | parataxis |
| 19 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 stop | xcomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 feasting | cc |
| 21 | feasting | feasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 talking | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 go | cc |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 stop | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 bed | case |
| 25 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 go | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | It | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | not come a condition, not said to happen | would | night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not stop a condition, not said to happen | would | the people | then | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | talk | gerund | the people not said here | feasting conj | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | go | infinitive | the people not said here | bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=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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