The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 80
No one moved inside; so, feeling sure that no one was watching her, or had noticed her come out, she went to the widow’s lodge, and found the pouch behind it, and quickly but noiselessly left the camp.
Who acts: one, captive · What happens: move, feel, watch, notice, come out, go · To what, where: one, captive, lodge, pouch, camp
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 (one, captive), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 left | nsubj |
| 3 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 one | acl |
| 4 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 3 moved | advmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 feeling | punct |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 feeling | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 feeling | punct |
| 8 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 one | conj |
| 9 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 feeling | xcomp |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 watching | mark |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 watching | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 watching | aux |
| 14 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 sure | advcl |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 watching | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 noticed | punct |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 noticed | cc |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 noticed | aux |
| 19 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 feeling | parataxis |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 noticed | obj |
| 21 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 noticed | xcomp |
| 22 | out | out | ADV | _ | 21 come | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 went | punct |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 went | nsubj |
| 25 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 noticed | parataxis |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 lodge | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 widow | det |
| 28 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lodge | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 28 widow | case |
| 30 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 went | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 found | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 found | cc |
| 33 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 went | conj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 pouch | det |
| 35 | pouch | pouch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 found | obj |
| 36 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 37 it | case |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 found | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 quickly | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 quickly | cc |
| 40 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 43 left | advmod |
| 41 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 42 noiselessly | cc |
| 42 | noiselessly | noiselessly | ADV | _ | 40 quickly | conj |
| 43 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 camp | det |
| 45 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 left | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 43 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | participle | no one not said here | inside property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | feel | gerund | no one not said here | sure property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | watch | past · progressive | no one | captive | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | notice | past · perfect | captive | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | come out | infinitive | captive not said here | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | go | past | captive | the widow's lodge | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lodge=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | find | past | captive not said here | the pouch | pouch | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pouch=Topic | |||
| 8 | leave | past | no one | the camp | quickly property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camp=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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