The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 67
He journeyed on alone considering what he should do, and at length, as he was travelling along over the prairie, he met a Badger, who said to him, “Brother, where are you going?”
Who acts: Coyote, Badger · What happens: journey, consider, do, travel, meet, say · To what, where: length, prairie, Badger, Brother, Coyote · 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, Badger), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 journeyed | nsubj |
| 2 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 journeyed | advmod |
| 4 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 journeyed | xcomp |
| 5 | considering | consider | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 journeyed | advcl |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 do | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | aux |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 considering | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 met | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 met | cc |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 length | case |
| 13 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 met | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 travelling | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 travelling | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 travelling | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 travelling | aux |
| 18 | travelling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 length | acl |
| 19 | along | along | ADV | _ | 18 travelling | advmod |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 prairie | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 prairie | det |
| 22 | prairie | prairie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 travelling | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 length | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 met | nsubj |
| 25 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 journeyed | parataxis |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 Badger | det |
| 27 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 met | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 said | punct |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 said | nsubj |
| 30 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 Badger | parataxis |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 him | case |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 said | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Brother | punct |
| 34 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 Brother | punct |
| 35 | Brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 said | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 going | punct |
| 37 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 40 going | advmod |
| 38 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 going | aux |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 going | nsubj |
| 40 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 Brother | acl |
| 41 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 40 going | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | journey | past | Coyote | alone property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | consider | gerund | Coyote not said here | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do | should | Coyote | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | travel | past · progressive | Coyote | length not said here | the prairie | along property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme length=Trajectory | ||
| 5 | meet | past | Coyote | a Badger | length | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent badger=Co-Agent | |||
| 6 | say speech: ask | past | a Badger | Brother | Coyote | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||
| 7 | go in a quote | present · progressive | Coyote | 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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