The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 80
Soon after they had all got together they stopped and sat down, and the Coyote told them how the girl had been lost, and said that he intended to try to get her back.
Who acts: bows, Coyote · What happens: get together, stop, sit down, tell, lose, say · To what, where: bows, girl, back · 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 (bows, 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 stopped | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 6 got | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 got | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | aux |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 got | advmod |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 stopped | parataxis |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 6 got | advmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 stopped | nsubj |
| 9 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sat | cc |
| 11 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 stopped | conj |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 sat | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 told | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 told | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Coyote | det |
| 16 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 told | nsubj |
| 17 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 stopped | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 told | iobj |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 lost | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 girl | det |
| 21 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 lost | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 lost | aux:pass |
| 24 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 told | ccomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 said | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 said | cc |
| 27 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 stopped | conj |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 intended | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 intended | nsubj |
| 30 | intended | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 said | ccomp |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 try | mark |
| 32 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 intended | xcomp |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 get | mark |
| 34 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 try | xcomp |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 back | nmod:poss |
| 36 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 get | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get together | past · perfect | bows = bow | all, together property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | bows = bow | soon property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | sit down | past | bows = bow not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | the Coyote | bows = bow | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | lose | past · perfect · passive | the girl | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | bows = bow not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | intend | past | Coyote | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | try not said to happen | to-infinitive | Coyote not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 9 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | Coyote not said here | girl's back | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer back=Stimulus |
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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