The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 1
By the bank of a river stood a lodge, in which lived four brothers and their sister.
What happens: stand, live · To what, where: lodge, four brothers
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 bank | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bank | det |
| 3 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 river | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 river | det |
| 6 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bank | nmod |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 lodge | det |
| 9 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lived | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 lived | nsubj |
| 13 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stood | conj |
| 14 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 brothers | nummod |
| 15 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 lived | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sister | cc |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 sister | nmod:poss |
| 18 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brothers | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a lodge | by the bank of a river | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lodge=Theme by bank=Destination | ||||
| 2 | live | past | four brothers and brothers's sister | which nsubj | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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