The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 119
First he would go to one stick and look carefully, and then he would go to the other and look.
Who acts: Coyote · What happens: go, look · To what, where: one stick, other
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 (Coyote), 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 go | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 stick | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 stick | nummod |
| 7 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 look | cc |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | conj |
| 10 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 9 look | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 go | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 go | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 go | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 go | aux |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 other | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 other | det |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 go | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 look | cc |
| 21 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 go | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | would | Coyote | one stick | first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stick=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | look | infinitive | Coyote not said here | carefully property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | go | would | Coyote | the other | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to other=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | look | infinitive | Coyote not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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