The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 100

Every now and then two of the young Bulls would begin to dispute over the game, each saying that his stick was the nearer to the ring, and sometimes they would wrangle for a long time.

Who acts: two, each, stick, sticks · What happens: begin, dispute, say, be, wrangle · To what, where: game · Speech: someone speaks here

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: who acts (two, each, stick, sticks), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 begin	det
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 begin	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 begin	cc
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 begin	advmod
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 begin	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 Bulls	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Bulls	det
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Bulls	amod
9	Bulls	bull	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 two	nmod
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 begin	aux
11	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 dispute	mark
13	dispute	dispute	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 begin	xcomp
14	over	over	ADP	_	16 game	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 game	det
16	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dispute	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 saying	punct
18	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	19 saying	nsubj
19	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 game	acl
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 nearer	mark
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 stick	nmod:poss
22	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 nearer	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 nearer	cop
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 nearer	det
25	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 saying	ccomp
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 ring	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 ring	det
28	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 nearer	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 wrangle	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 wrangle	cc
31	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	34 wrangle	advmod
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 wrangle	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 wrangle	aux
34	wrangle	wrangle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 nearer	conj
35	for	for	ADP	_	38 time	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 time	det
37	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 time	amod
38	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 wrangle	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 begin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	would	two of the young Bulls		now; then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	dispute	to-infinitive	two of the young Bulls not said here			over the game	vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent over game=Theme
3	say speech: assert	gerund	each	the game not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent game=Topic
4	is	past	Coyote's stick			to the ring; near property	tree rules
5	wrangle	would	sticks = stick		time	sometimes property	vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 100

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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 100