The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 138
In this way he went a long distance, but at length he got tired and felt that he could not run or dig much farther.
Who acts: Buffalo · What happens: go, get, feel, not run, dig · To what, where: long distance, way, length
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 distance | det |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 distance | amod |
| 8 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 got | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 got | cc |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 length | case |
| 12 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 got | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 got | nsubj |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 15 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 got | xcomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 felt | cc |
| 17 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 got | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 run | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 run | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 run | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 run | advmod |
| 22 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 felt | ccomp |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 dig | cc |
| 24 | dig | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 run | conj |
| 25 | much | much | ADV | _ | 26 farther | advmod |
| 26 | farther | far | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 dig | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Buffalo | a long distance | this way | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in way=Location | |||
| 2 | get | past | Buffalo | length | tired property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | feel | past | Buffalo not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not run | could | Buffalo | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | dig | infinitive | Buffalo not said here | far property | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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