The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 128
He was very tired, and it seemed to him as if he could not run any farther.
Who acts: Buffalo, it · What happens: be, seem, not run · 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 (Buffalo, it), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tired | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tired | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 tired | advmod |
| 4 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 seemed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 seemed | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 seemed | nsubj |
| 8 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tired | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 seemed | obl |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 run | mark |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 run | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 run | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 run | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 run | advmod |
| 16 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 seemed | xcomp |
| 17 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 farther | det |
| 18 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 run | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Buffalo | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | it | Buffalo | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | not run a condition, not said to happen | could | Buffalo | far property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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