The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 126
At last the Coyote was beginning to get tired, and was running more slowly, and the Buffalo were beginning to catch up to him, but he was getting near to where the Badger was.
Who acts: last Coyote, Buffalo · What happens: begin, get, run, catch up · To what, where: Buffalo
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 (last Coyote, Buffalo), 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 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Coyote | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Coyote | det |
| 4 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 beginning | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 beginning | aux |
| 6 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 get | mark |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 beginning | xcomp |
| 9 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 get | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 running | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 running | cc |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 running | aux |
| 13 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 beginning | conj |
| 14 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 slowly | advmod |
| 15 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 13 running | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 beginning | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 beginning | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Buffalo | det |
| 19 | Buffalo | Buffalo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 beginning | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 beginning | aux |
| 21 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 beginning | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 catch | mark |
| 23 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 beginning | xcomp |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 catch | compound:prt |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 catch | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 getting | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 getting | cc |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 getting | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 getting | aux |
| 31 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 beginning | conj |
| 32 | near | near | ADV | _ | 31 getting | advmod |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 where | case |
| 34 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 32 near | obl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Badger | det |
| 36 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 was | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 where | advcl:relcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 beginning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past · progressive | the last Coyote | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | the last Coyote not said here | tired property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | run | past · progressive | the last Coyote not said here | slowly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | begin | past · progressive | the Buffalo | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | catch up | to-infinitive | the Buffalo not said here | Buffalo | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | get | past · progressive | Buffalo | near property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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