The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 131
The Coyote raced down the hill as fast as he could, and when he got to the hole he gave the ring to the Badger, and just as the herd of Buffalo got to the place, they both dived down into the hole.
Who acts: Coyote, herd, herds · What happens: race, get, give, dive down · To what, where: hill, ring, Badger, hole
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 (Coyote, herd, herds), 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 Coyote | det |
| 2 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 raced | nsubj |
| 3 | raced | race | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 hill | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hill | det |
| 6 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 raced | obl |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 fast | advmod |
| 8 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 raced | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 could | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 could | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 fast | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gave | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 gave | cc |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 got | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 got | nsubj |
| 16 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 gave | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 hole | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hole | det |
| 19 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 got | obl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 gave | nsubj |
| 21 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 raced | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ring | det |
| 23 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gave | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 Badger | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Badger | det |
| 26 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 gave | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 got | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 got | cc |
| 29 | just | just | ADV | _ | 32 herd | advmod |
| 30 | as | as | ADP | _ | 32 herd | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 herd | det |
| 32 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 got | nsubj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Buffalo | case |
| 34 | Buffalo | Buffalo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 herd | nmod |
| 35 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 raced | conj |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 place | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 place | det |
| 38 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 got | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 dived | punct |
| 40 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 dived | nsubj |
| 41 | both | both | ADV | _ | 42 dived | advmod |
| 42 | dived | dive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 raced | conj |
| 43 | down | down | ADV | _ | 42 dived | advmod |
| 44 | into | into | ADP | _ | 46 hole | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 hole | det |
| 46 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 dived | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 raced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | race | past | the Coyote | the hill | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down hill=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | get | past | Coyote | to the hole result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to hole=Result | ||||
| 3 | give | past | Coyote | the ring | the Badger | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ring=Theme to badger=Recipient | |||
| 4 | get | past | the herd of Buffalo | to the place result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result | ||||
| 5 | dive down | past | herds = herd | the hole | both, down property | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into hole=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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