The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 66
After he had spoken thus, he said, “Now I am going to start off on the war-path,” and he left them and went away.
Who acts: Coyote · What happens: speak, say, go, start off, leave, go away · To what, where: war path, crowds · 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 (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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 spoken | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spoken | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoken | aux |
| 4 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 5 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 spoken | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoken | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 going | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 going | punct |
| 11 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 going | advmod |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 going | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 going | aux |
| 14 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 start | mark |
| 16 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 going | xcomp |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 start | compound:prt |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 path | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 path | det |
| 20 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 path | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 war | punct |
| 22 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 start | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 going | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 going | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 left | cc |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 left | nsubj |
| 27 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 left | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 went | cc |
| 30 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 left | conj |
| 31 | away | away | ADV | _ | 30 went | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past · perfect | Coyote | thus property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Coyote | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | present · progressive | Coyote | now | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | start off in a quote | to-infinitive | Coyote not said here | the war path | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | leave | past | Coyote | crowds = crowd | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 6 | go away | past | Coyote not said here | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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