The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 92
In a little while day began to break, and she found herself on a wide plain south of the hills.
Who acts: day, two · What happens: begin, break, find · To what, where: little, two, wide plain south
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 (day, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 little | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 little | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 began | obl |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 began | mark |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 began | nsubj |
| 6 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 break | mark |
| 8 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 began | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 found | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 found | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 found | nsubj |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 began | conj |
| 13 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 found | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 south | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 south | det |
| 16 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 south | amod |
| 17 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 south | amod |
| 18 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 found | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 hills | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hills | det |
| 21 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 south | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | day | a little | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | break | to-infinitive | day not said here | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | find | past | two | two | a wide plain south of the hills | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic |
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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