The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 147
When they had almost caught him, he came to where the Hawk was sitting.
Who acts: Rabbit, Hawk · What happens: catch, come, sit · To what, where: brothers
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 (Rabbit, Hawk), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 caught | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 caught | aux |
| 4 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 5 caught | advmod |
| 5 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 came | advcl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 caught | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 caught | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 15 sitting | mark |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 sitting | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Hawk | det |
| 13 | Hawk | Hawk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 sitting | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sitting | aux |
| 15 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 came | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past · perfect · passive | brothers = brother | Rabbit obj; almost property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Rabbit | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sit | past · progressive | the Hawk | vn assuming_position-50 «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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