The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay Visits the Ghosts, sentence 2
One night the ghosts went out to buy a wife.
Who acts: ghosts · What happens: go out, buy · To what, where: wife
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 (ghosts), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 night | nummod |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ghosts | det |
| 4 | ghosts | ghost | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 buy | mark |
| 8 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 went | xcomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 wife | det |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 buy | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | the ghosts | night | out property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | buy | to-infinitive | the ghosts not said here | a wife | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=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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