The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 94
There she remained all day, eating none of her little store of food, for she was so thirsty it choked her.
Who acts: two, food · What happens: remain, eat, be, choke · To what, where: none, two
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, food), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 remained | expl |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 remained | nsubj |
| 3 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remained | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 eating | punct |
| 7 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 remained | advcl |
| 8 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 7 eating | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 store | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 store | nmod:poss |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 store | amod |
| 12 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 none | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 food | case |
| 14 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 store | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 choked | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 thirsty | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 thirsty | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 thirsty | cop |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 thirsty | advmod |
| 20 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 choked | advcl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 choked | nsubj |
| 22 | choked | choke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 remained | conj |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 choked | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | two | there | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | eat | gerund | two not said here | none of two's little store of food | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | two | thirsty property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | choke | past | food | two | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Destination |
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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