The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 144
The Kit Fox is a swift animal, and for a long time he kept ahead of the Buffalo.
Who acts: Kit Fox, Fox · What happens: be, keep · To what, where: swift animal
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, 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 | Kit | kit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Fox | compound |
| 3 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 animal | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 animal | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 animal | det |
| 6 | swift | swift | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 animal | amod |
| 7 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 kept | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 kept | cc |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 time | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 time | amod |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kept | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 kept | nsubj |
| 15 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 animal | conj |
| 16 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 15 kept | advmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Buffalo | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Buffalo | det |
| 19 | Buffalo | Buffalo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 kept | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 animal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Kit Fox | a swift animal | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | Fox | time | of the Buffalo; ahead property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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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