The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 12
While they were away a Coyote came to the lodge and talked to the girl.
Who acts: boys, Coyote · What happens: be, come, talk · To what, where: lodge
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 (boys, 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 away | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 away | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 away | cop |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 came | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Coyote | det |
| 6 | Coyote | coyote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 lodge | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lodge | det |
| 10 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 talked | cc |
| 12 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 girl | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 girl | det |
| 15 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 talked | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | boys = boy | away property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | a Coyote | the lodge | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lodge=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | talk | past | a Coyote not said here | to the girl | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to girl=Co-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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