The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 82
The shower passed, and the moon came out, and then the poor woman heard shouts and calls, and the rushing tread of horses; the whole camp was aroused, and they were searching for her.
Who acts: shower, moon, poor woman, camps, horses · What happens: pass, come out, hear, shout, call, rush · To what, where: rushing tread, whole camp · 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 (shower, moon, poor woman, camps), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 shower | det |
| 2 | shower | shower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 came | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 moon | det |
| 7 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 9 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 came | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 heard | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 heard | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 heard | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 woman | det |
| 14 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 woman | amod |
| 15 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 heard | nsubj |
| 16 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 17 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 heard | ccomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 calls | cc |
| 19 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 shouts | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 tread | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 tread | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 tread | det |
| 23 | rushing | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 tread | amod |
| 24 | tread | tread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 horses | case |
| 26 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 tread | nmod |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 aroused | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 camp | det |
| 29 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 camp | amod |
| 30 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 aroused | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 aroused | aux:pass |
| 32 | aroused | arouse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 passed | parataxis |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 searching | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 searching | cc |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 searching | nsubj |
| 36 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 searching | aux |
| 37 | searching | search | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 aroused | conj |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 her | case |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 searching | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | the shower | the rushing tread of horses | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come out | past | the moon | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | the poor woman | then | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | shout speech: express | present | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | call | present | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | rush | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | arouse | past · passive | the whole camp | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | search | past · progressive | camps = camp | for captive | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for she=Theme | ||||
| 9 | tread | horses | nom tread «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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