The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 90
She almost fainted with fright, knowing that these were some of her pursuers waiting for daylight to resume their search.
Who acts: two, pursuers · What happens: faint, know, wait, resume, search · To what, where: some, search
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 (two, pursuers), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fainted | nsubj |
| 2 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 3 fainted | advmod |
| 3 | fainted | faint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 fright | case |
| 5 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fainted | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 knowing | punct |
| 7 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 fainted | advcl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 some | mark |
| 9 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 some | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 some | cop |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 knowing | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 pursuers | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 pursuers | nmod:poss |
| 14 | pursuers | pursuer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 some | nmod |
| 15 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 pursuers | acl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 daylight | case |
| 17 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 waiting | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 resume | mark |
| 19 | resume | resume | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 waiting | advcl |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 search | nmod:poss |
| 21 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 resume | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fainted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | faint | past | two | with fright; almost property | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | know | gerund | two not said here | some these of two's pursuers | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer some=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | wait | gerund | two's pursuers not said here | for daylight | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | resume | to-infinitive | two's pursuers not said here | pursuers's search | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent search=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | search | pursuers = pursuer | nom search «act transitive»: poss=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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