The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 95
Several times during the day she heard the distant tramp of horses, but she did not look out, much as she wished to see what was going on.
Who acts: two · What happens: hear, not look out, wish, see, go on · To what, where: distant tramp · 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 (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 | Several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 times | amod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 heard | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | during | during | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | obl |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tramp | det |
| 9 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tramp | amod |
| 10 | tramp | tramp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 horses | case |
| 12 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 tramp | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 look | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 look | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 look | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 look | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 look | advmod |
| 18 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 heard | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 look | compound:prt |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 wished | punct |
| 21 | much | much | ADV | _ | 24 wished | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 wished | mark |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 wished | nsubj |
| 24 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 look | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 see | mark |
| 26 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 wished | xcomp |
| 27 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 29 going | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 going | aux |
| 29 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 see | ccomp |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 going | compound:prt |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | two | the distant tramp of horses | day; time | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tramp=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | not look out | past · do-support | two | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wish | past | two | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | two not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | go on | past · progressive | what nsubj | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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