The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 42

He began to swing her, at first gently, but all at once he pushed her very hard, and kept doing this until she swung high.

Who acts: Buffalo, all, girl · What happens: begin, swing, push, keep, do · To what, where: girl, this

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, all, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 swing	mark
4	swing	swing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	xcomp
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 swing	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 first	punct
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 first	case
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 swing	advmod
9	gently	gently	ADV	_	8 first	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pushed	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 pushed	cc
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 pushed	nsubj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 once	case
14	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 all	nmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 pushed	nsubj
16	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	conj
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 pushed	obj
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 hard	advmod
19	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 pushed	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 kept	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 kept	cc
22	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	parataxis
23	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 kept	xcomp
24	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 doing	obj
25	until	until	SCONJ	_	27 swung	mark
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 swung	nsubj
27	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 kept	advcl
28	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 swung	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Buffalo			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	swing	to-infinitive	Buffalo not said here	girl	first property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme she=Result
3	push	past	all	girl	Buffalo nsubj; hard property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	keep	past				tree rules
5	do	gerund		this		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
6	swing	past	girl		high property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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🌲 The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 42

The tree

Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 42