The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 113
At length two of the young Bulls had a very fierce dispute, and almost came to fighting over it.
What happens: have, come, fight · To what, where: fierce dispute, length
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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obl |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 length | flat |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Bulls | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Bulls | det |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Bulls | amod |
| 7 | Bulls | Bull | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 length | nmod |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 dispute | det |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 fierce | advmod |
| 11 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 dispute | amod |
| 12 | dispute | dispute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 came | cc |
| 15 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 16 came | advmod |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 had | conj |
| 17 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 18 fighting | mark |
| 18 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 came | advcl |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 fighting | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | a fierce dispute | length of the young Bulls | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dispute=Patient | ||||
| 2 | come | past | almost property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fight | gerund | over dispute | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent over it=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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