The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 120
The sticks were about the same distance from the ring, and for a long time it seemed that he could not make up his mind which was the nearer.
Who acts: sticks, it, Coyote, mind · What happens: be, seem, not make up, mind · To what, where: ring, same distance, mind
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 (sticks, it, Coyote, mind), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sticks | det |
| 2 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 distance | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 distance | cop |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 distance | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 distance | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 distance | amod |
| 7 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 ring | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ring | det |
| 10 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 distance | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seemed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 seemed | cc |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 time | amod |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seemed | obl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 seemed | nsubj |
| 18 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 distance | acl:relcl |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 make | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 make | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 make | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 make | advmod |
| 23 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 seemed | xcomp |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 make | compound:prt |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 mind | nmod:poss |
| 26 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 make | obj |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 nearer | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 nearer | cop |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 nearer | det |
| 30 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 mind | amod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 distance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the sticks | the ring | about the same distance | tree rules | |||
| 2 | seem | past | it | the same distance not said here | time | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not make up | could | Coyote | Coyote's mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Coyote's mind | near property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | mind | Coyote | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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