The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 5
When the arrows were ready, she would get into the swing and the boys would swing her.
Who acts: arrows, girl, boys · What happens: be, get, swing · To what, where: swing, girl
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 (arrows, girl, boys), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 ready | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 arrows | det |
| 3 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ready | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ready | cop |
| 5 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 get | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 get | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 get | aux |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ready | parataxis |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 swing | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 swing | det |
| 12 | swing | swing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 get | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 swing | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 boys | det |
| 15 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 swing | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 swing | aux |
| 17 | swing | swing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 get | conj |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 swing | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the arrows | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | would | girl | the swing | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into swing=Destination | ||||
| 3 | swing | would | the boys | girl | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent she=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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