The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 36
I can run around you fast, after you are in the swing, and I can keep the Buffalo off.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: run, be, keep off · To what, where: Buffalo
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 (I, you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 run | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 run | aux |
| 3 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | around | around | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 run | obl |
| 6 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 run | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 swing | punct |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 swing | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 swing | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 swing | cop |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 swing | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 swing | det |
| 13 | swing | swing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 run | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 keep | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 keep | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 keep | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 keep | aux |
| 18 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 run | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Buffalo | det |
| 20 | Buffalo | Buffalo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 keep | obj |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 keep | compound:prt |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | can | I | around you; fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around you=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | is | present | you | after the swing | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | keep off | can | I | the Buffalo | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buffalo=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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