The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 98
Yes, there were the bodies of him and his friends, now shapeless and terrible objects.
Who acts: bodies · What happens: be
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 (bodies), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 were | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 were | expl |
| 4 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bodies | det |
| 6 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 were | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bodies | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 friends | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 friends | nmod:poss |
| 11 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 him | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shapeless | punct |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 shapeless | advmod |
| 14 | shapeless | shapeless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 objects | amod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 terrible | cc |
| 16 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 shapeless | conj |
| 17 | objects | object | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 were | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | the bodies of husband | there | shapeless objects nsubj | vn exist-47.1 «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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