The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 129
If he did not soon get to where he had left the Badger, the Buffalo would run over him and trample him to death, and get back the ring.
Who acts: Buffalo · What happens: not get, leave, run, trample, get back · To what, where: Badger, Buffalo, ring
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), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 get | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 get | advmod |
| 5 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 get | advmod |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 run | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 11 left | mark |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 left | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 left | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 left | aux |
| 11 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 get | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Badger | det |
| 13 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 left | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Buffalo | det |
| 16 | Buffalo | Buffalo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 run | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 run | aux |
| 18 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 run | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 trample | cc |
| 22 | trample | trample | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 run | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 trample | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 death | case |
| 25 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 trample | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 get | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 get | cc |
| 28 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 run | parataxis |
| 29 | back | back | ADV | _ | 28 get | advmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 ring | det |
| 31 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 get | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get a condition, not said to happen | past · do-support | Buffalo | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | leave | past · perfect | Buffalo | the Badger | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent badger=Theme | ||||
| 3 | run | would | the Buffalo | over Badger | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over he=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | trample | infinitive | the Buffalo not said here | Buffalo | to death | tree rules | |||
| 5 | get back | infinitive | the ring | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ring=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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