The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 91
Quick as a flash she stooped among the low brush, crawled slowly back, and then, rising, hurried away in another direction.
Who acts: two · What happens: stoop, crawl, rise, hurry away · To what, where: flash, direction
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), 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 | Quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 flash | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 flash | det |
| 4 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Quick | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stooped | nsubj |
| 6 | stooped | stoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flash | acl:relcl |
| 7 | among | among | ADP | _ | 10 brush | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 brush | det |
| 9 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 brush | amod |
| 10 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stooped | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 crawled | punct |
| 12 | crawled | crawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stooped | conj |
| 13 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 14 back | advmod |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 crawled | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rising | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 rising | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 rising | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rising | punct |
| 19 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 crawled | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hurried | punct |
| 21 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 rising | conj |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 hurried | advmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 direction | case |
| 24 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 direction | det |
| 25 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hurried | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Quick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stoop | past | two | a flash not said here | among the low brush | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location flash=Theme | |||
| 2 | crawl | past | two not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | rise | gerund | two not said here | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | hurry away | participle | two not said here | another direction | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory |
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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