The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 75
After a time they met a Kit Fox, and asked him to join them, and he did so.
Who acts: bows, Fox · What happens: meet, ask, join, do · To what, where: Kit Fox, Fox, bows
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 (bows, Fox), 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 | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 met | nsubj |
| 5 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Fox | det |
| 7 | Kit | kit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Fox | compound |
| 8 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 asked | cc |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 met | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 asked | iobj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 join | mark |
| 14 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 asked | xcomp |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 join | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 did | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 did | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 did | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 asked | conj |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 did | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | bows = bow | a Kit Fox | time | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | bows = bow not said here | Fox | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | join not said to happen | to-infinitive | bows = bow not said here | bows = bow | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 4 | do | past | Fox | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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