The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 60
While they were talking about this, the Coyote, with all the mud upon him, stood before them and said: “Brothers, do not feel sorry because your sister is lost.
Who acts: brothers, Coyote · What happens: talk, stand, say, not feel, lose · To what, where: Brothers, sister · 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 (brothers, Coyote), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 talking | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 talking | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 talking | aux |
| 4 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 stood | advcl |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 this | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 talking | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 talking | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Coyote | det |
| 9 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 stood | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 mud | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 mud | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 mud | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mud | det |
| 14 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Coyote | appos |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 mud | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Coyote | punct |
| 18 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | before | before | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 stood | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 said | cc |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 stood | conj |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 Brothers | punct |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 Brothers | punct |
| 25 | Brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 said | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 feel | punct |
| 27 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 29 feel | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 feel | advmod |
| 29 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 Brothers | acl:relcl |
| 30 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 feel | xcomp |
| 31 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 35 lost | mark |
| 32 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 sister | nmod:poss |
| 33 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 lost | nsubj |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 lost | aux:pass |
| 35 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 feel | advcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | past · progressive | brothers = brother | about this | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about this=Topic | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | the Coyote | before brothers = brother | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before they=Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Coyote not said here | Brothers | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not feel in a quote | infinitive · do-support | Brothers not said here | sorry property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | lose in a quote | present · passive | your sister | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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