The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 48
When the Buffalo had gone, the Coyote came out of the lodge and saw that the girl was not there.
Who acts: Buffalo, Coyote, girl · What happens: go, come out, see, not be · To what, where: lodge
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, Coyote, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 gone | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Buffalo | det |
| 3 | Buffalo | Buffalo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | aux |
| 5 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 came | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 gone | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Coyote | det |
| 8 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 lodge | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 lodge | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lodge | det |
| 13 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 there | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 girl | det |
| 18 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 there | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 there | cop |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 there | advmod |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 saw | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | the Buffalo | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come out | past | the Coyote | the lodge | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient lodge=Result | ||||
| 3 | see | past | the Coyote not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | not is | past | the girl | there property | tree rules |
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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