The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 156
The ring was heavy for so small a bird, and he would alight on the backs of the Buffalo and fly from one to another.
Who acts: ring, Buffalo · What happens: be, alight, fly · To what, where: backs
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 (ring, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ring | det |
| 2 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heavy | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heavy | cop |
| 4 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 bird | case |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 small | advmod |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bird | amod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bird | det |
| 9 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heavy | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 alight | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 alight | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 alight | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 alight | aux |
| 14 | alight | alight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 heavy | parataxis |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 backs | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 backs | det |
| 17 | backs | back | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 alight | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Buffalo | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Buffalo | det |
| 20 | Buffalo | Buffalo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 backs | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fly | cc |
| 22 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 alight | conj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 one | case |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 fly | obl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 another | case |
| 26 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 one | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heavy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the ring | for a small bird; heavy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | alight | would | Buffalo | the backs of the Buffalo | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fly | infinitive | Buffalo not said here | from one to another | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from one=Trajectory |
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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