The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay Visits the Ghosts, sentence 162
There sat a chief, a good-looking man; it was Ioí’s husband.
Who acts: house · What happens: sit, look, be · To what, where: chief, husband
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Bluejay Visits the Ghosts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house), 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 | 2 sat | expl |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 chief | det |
| 4 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 man | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 looking | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 good | punct |
| 9 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chief | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 husband | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 husband | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 husband | cop |
| 14 | Ioí | Ioí | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 husband | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 Ioí | case |
| 16 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | a chief and a looking man | there | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chief=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | house | Ioí's husband | Ioí nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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