The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 53
They hurried back, running fast, and when they reached the lodge they found the Coyote just dragging himself out of a mud-hole.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: hurry back, run, reach, find, drag · To what, where: lodge, Coyote, mud hole
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 (brothers), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hurried | nsubj |
| 2 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 hurried | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 running | punct |
| 5 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 hurried | advcl |
| 6 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 running | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 found | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 found | cc |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 reached | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 reached | nsubj |
| 11 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 found | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lodge | det |
| 13 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reached | obj |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 found | nsubj |
| 15 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hurried | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Coyote | det |
| 17 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 found | obj |
| 18 | just | just | ADV | _ | 19 dragging | advmod |
| 19 | dragging | drag | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 found | advcl |
| 20 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 dragging | obj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 hole | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 hole | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 hole | det |
| 24 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hole | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 mud | punct |
| 26 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dragging | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry back | past | brothers = brother | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | run | gerund | brothers = brother not said here | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reach | past | brothers = brother | the lodge | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent lodge=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | past | brothers = brother | the Coyote | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coyote=Topic | ||||
| 5 | drag | gerund | brothers = brother not said here | Coyote | a mud hole | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent himself=Theme out hole=Initial_Location |
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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