The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 6
As the swing moved, they would see dust rising all around the horizon, and would know that the Buffalo were coming.
Who acts: swing, boys, dust, Buffalo · What happens: move, see, rise, know, come · To what, where: dust, horizon · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (swing, boys, dust, Buffalo), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 moved | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 swing | det |
| 3 | swing | swing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 moved | nsubj |
| 4 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 see | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 moved | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 see | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 see | aux |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 see | obj |
| 10 | rising | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 dust | acl |
| 11 | all | all | ADV | _ | 14 horizon | advmod |
| 12 | around | around | ADP | _ | 14 horizon | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 horizon | det |
| 14 | horizon | horizon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rising | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 know | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 know | cc |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 know | aux |
| 18 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 see | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 coming | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Buffalo | det |
| 21 | Buffalo | Buffalo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 coming | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 coming | aux |
| 23 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 know | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past | the swing | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | would | boys = boy | dust | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dust=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | rise | gerund | dust not said here | the horizon | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around horizon=Location | ||||
| 4 | know | would | boys = boy not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | come | past · progressive | the Buffalo | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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