The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 41
After he had begged her for a long time, she agreed to let him swing her a little, and got in the swing.
Who acts: Buffalo, girl · What happens: beg, agree, let, swing, get · To what, where: girl, Buffalo, swing
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 (Buffalo, girl), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 begged | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 begged | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 begged | aux |
| 4 | begged | beg | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 agreed | advcl |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 begged | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 time | amod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 begged | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 begged | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 agreed | nsubj |
| 12 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 let | mark |
| 14 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 agreed | xcomp |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 let | obj |
| 16 | swing | swing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 let | xcomp |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 swing | obj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 little | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 swing | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 got | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 got | cc |
| 22 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 agreed | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 swing | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 swing | det |
| 25 | swing | swing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 got | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past · perfect | Buffalo | girl | time | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | past | girl | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | let not said to happen | to-infinitive | girl not said here | Buffalo | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | swing | infinitive | Buffalo not said here | girl | a little obl:unmarked | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme she=Result | |||
| 5 | get | past | girl not said here | the swing | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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