The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 133

Before he had gone very far, some of the Buffalo on the outside of the herd saw him, and called out to the others: “There he is!

Who acts: Badger, some · What happens: go, see, call out, be · To what, where: Badger, others · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Badger, some), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	4 gone	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 saw	advcl
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 far	advmod
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 gone	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 saw	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 Buffalo	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Buffalo	det
11	Buffalo	Buffalo	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 some	nmod
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 outside	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 outside	det
14	outside	outside	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 some	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 herd	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 herd	det
17	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 outside	nmod
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 saw	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 called	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 called	cc
22	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 saw	conj
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 called	compound:prt
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 others	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 others	det
26	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 called	obl
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 is	punct
28	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 is	punct
29	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	31 is	expl
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 is	nsubj
31	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 saw	conj
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	Badger				far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	some of the Buffalo on the outside of the herd	Badger				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	call out speech: assert	participle	some of the Buffalo on the outside of the herd not said here		the others			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to other=Recipient
4	be in a quote	present	Badger			there		vn exist-47.1 «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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🌲 The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 133

The tree

Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 133