The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay Visits the Ghosts, sentence 24
When it got dark people began to appear, and soon the house was full.
Who acts: law, dark people, house · What happens: get, begin, appear, be
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 (law, dark people, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 people | amod |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 began | nsubj |
| 6 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 appear | mark |
| 8 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 began | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 full | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 full | cc |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 full | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 full | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 full | cop |
| 15 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 got | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | law | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | begin | past | dark people | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | appear | to-infinitive | dark people not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the house | full, soon property | 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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