The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 143
The little Fox ran fast, gliding along like a bird; and the Buffalo, when they saw him running, chased him and ran hard.
Who acts: little Fox, brothers, Fox · What happens: run, glide, see, chase · To what, where: Buffalo, Fox
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 (little Fox, brothers, Fox), 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 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Fox | amod |
| 3 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 ran | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 gliding | punct |
| 7 | gliding | glide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 ran | advcl |
| 8 | along | along | ADV | _ | 7 gliding | advmod |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 bird | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bird | det |
| 11 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gliding | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 Buffalo | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Buffalo | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Buffalo | det |
| 15 | Buffalo | Buffalo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saw | punct |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 saw | advmod |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | obj |
| 21 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 saw | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 chased | punct |
| 23 | chased | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 saw | parataxis |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 chased | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 ran | cc |
| 26 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 chased | conj |
| 27 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 ran | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the little Fox | the Buffalo | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | glide | gerund | the little Fox not said here | like a bird; along property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | brothers = brother | Fox | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | run | gerund | Fox not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | chase | past | Fox | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||||
| 6 | run | past | hard property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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