The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 142
The Kit Fox jumped up and ran to him and took the ring in his mouth and started running, and the Badger dug a deep hole, and stayed there.
Who acts: Kit Fox, Badger · What happens: jump up, run, take, start, dig, stay · To what, where: Fox, ring, mouth, deep 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 (Kit Fox, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Fox | det |
| 2 | Kit | kit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Fox | compound |
| 3 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jumped | nsubj |
| 4 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 jumped | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ran | cc |
| 7 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 jumped | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ran | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 took | cc |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 jumped | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ring | det |
| 13 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 mouth | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 16 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 started | cc |
| 18 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 jumped | conj |
| 19 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 started | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 dug | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 dug | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Badger | det |
| 23 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 dug | nsubj |
| 24 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 jumped | parataxis |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 hole | det |
| 26 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 hole | amod |
| 27 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 dug | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 stayed | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 stayed | cc |
| 30 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 dug | conj |
| 31 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 stayed | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump up | past | the Kit Fox | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | run | past | the Kit Fox not said here | Fox | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result | ||||
| 3 | take | past | the Kit Fox not said here | the ring | Fox's mouth | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ring=Value in mouth=Location | |||
| 4 | start | past | the Kit Fox not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | run | gerund | the Kit Fox not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | dig | past | the Badger | a deep hole | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Theme | ||||
| 7 | stay | past | the Badger not said here | 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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