The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Stories and the Story-tellers, sentence 8
In their true form they are full of human nature, full of unconscious suggestion as to how the primitive mind worked, and full also of hints as to the customs and life of the people in the old days.
Who acts: stories, primitive mind · What happens: be, work, form · To what, where: true form
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Stories and the Story-tellers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stories, primitive mind), 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 | _ | 4 form | case |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 form | nmod:poss |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 form | amod |
| 4 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 full | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 full | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 full | cop |
| 7 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 nature | case |
| 9 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 nature | amod |
| 10 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 full | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 full | punct |
| 12 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 full | parataxis |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 suggestion | case |
| 14 | unconscious | unconscious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 suggestion | amod |
| 15 | suggestion | suggestion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 full | obl |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 worked | mark |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 as | fixed |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 worked | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 mind | det |
| 20 | primitive | primitive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 mind | amod |
| 21 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 worked | nsubj |
| 22 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 full | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 full | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 full | cc |
| 25 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 full | conj |
| 26 | also | also | ADV | _ | 25 full | advmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 hints | case |
| 28 | hints | hint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 full | obl |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 32 customs | case |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 as | fixed |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 customs | det |
| 32 | customs | custom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 full | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 life | cc |
| 34 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 customs | conj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 people | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 people | det |
| 37 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 life | nmod |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 days | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 days | det |
| 40 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 days | amod |
| 41 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 people | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | stories = story | stories's true form | of human nature; full property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | work | past | the primitive mind | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | be | stories = story not said here | of hints; as the customs and life of the people in the old days | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | form | stories = story | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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