The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 130

At length, when they were close behind him, he ran over the top of a little hill, and down in the valley below saw the Badger sitting at the mouth of his hole.

Who acts: sides, Buffalo, Badger · What happens: be, run, see, sit · To what, where: length, Badger, valley, mouth

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 (sides, Buffalo, Badger), 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 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ran	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 length	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 close	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 close	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 close	cop
7	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 length	parataxis
8	behind	behind	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 close	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 length	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ran	nsubj
12	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	over	over	ADP	_	15 top	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 top	det
15	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ran	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 hill	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 hill	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hill	amod
19	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 top	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 down	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 down	cc
22	down	down	ADV	_	27 saw	advmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 valley	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 valley	det
25	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 saw	obl
26	below	below	ADV	_	27 saw	advmod
27	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 ran	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Badger	det
29	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 saw	obj
30	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 saw	xcomp
31	at	at	ADP	_	33 mouth	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 mouth	det
33	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sitting	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 hole	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 hole	nmod:poss
36	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 mouth	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	sides = side			behind Buffalo; close property	tree rules
2	run	past	Buffalo		length	over the top of a little hill	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Trajectory
3	see	past	Buffalo not said here	the Badger	the valley	below, down property	tree rules
4	sit	gerund	the Badger not said here		the mouth of Buffalo's hole		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at mouth=Location

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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🌲 The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 130

The tree

Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 130