The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 77

But at last everything was quiet in the camp, and in the chief’s lodge the fire of small willows had died down, and the deep breathing of the occupants showed that they were asleep.

Who acts: fire, deep breathing, people, occupants · What happens: be, die down, show, fire, breathe · To what, where: everything, small willows · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (fire, deep breathing, people, occupants), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 quiet	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 everything	case
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 everything	amod
4	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 quiet	obl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 quiet	cop
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 camp	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 camp	det
9	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 quiet	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 died	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 died	cc
12	in	in	ADP	_	16 lodge	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 chief	det
14	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lodge	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 chief	case
16	lodge	lodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 died	obl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 fire	det
18	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 died	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 willows	case
20	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 willows	amod
21	willows	willow	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 fire	nmod
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 died	aux
23	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 quiet	conj
24	down	down	ADP	_	23 died	compound:prt
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 showed	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 showed	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 breathing	det
28	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 breathing	amod
29	breathing	breathing	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 showed	nsubj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 occupants	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 occupants	det
32	occupants	occupant	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 breathing	nmod
33	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 quiet	conj
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 asleep	mark
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 asleep	nsubj
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 asleep	cop
37	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 showed	ccomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 quiet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past			everything	in the camp; quiet property	tree rules
2	die down	past · perfect	the fire of small willows			in the chief's lodge	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in lodge=Attribute
3	show	past	the deep breathing of the occupants				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	people			asleep property	tree rules
5	fire			small willows			nom fire «event transitive»: of=patient
6	breathe		the occupants				nom breathing «act intransitive»: of=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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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 77