The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 8
When the Buffalo had come close, the boys would kill them in a circle all about the swing.
Who acts: Buffalo, boys · What happens: come, kill · To what, where: bows, circle
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 (Buffalo, boys), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 come | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Buffalo | det |
| 3 | Buffalo | Buffalo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 come | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 kill | csubj |
| 6 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 come | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 kill | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 boys | det |
| 9 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 kill | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 kill | aux |
| 11 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 kill | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 circle | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 circle | det |
| 15 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kill | obl |
| 16 | all | all | ADV | _ | 19 swing | advmod |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 swing | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 swing | det |
| 19 | swing | swing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 circle | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · perfect | the Buffalo | close property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kill | would | the boys | bows = bow | a circle about the swing | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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