The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 162
And there, sitting by the fire and smiling at them as they came in, they saw their sister.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: sit, smile, come in, see · To what, where: sister
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 (brothers), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sitting | cc |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sitting | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sitting | punct |
| 4 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 fire | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fire | det |
| 7 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sitting | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 smiling | cc |
| 9 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 sitting | conj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 smiling | obl |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 came | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 smiling | advcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saw | punct |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 saw | nsubj |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sitting | parataxis |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 sister | nmod:poss |
| 20 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 saw | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | gerund | there | by the fire | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location | ||||
| 2 | smile | gerund | at brothers = brother | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come in | past | brothers = brother | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | past | brothers = brother | brothers's sister | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sister=Stimulus |
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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