The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 81
Then they talked, and the Coyote told them the plan that he—the leader—had made.
Who acts: bows, Coyote · What happens: talk, tell, leader, make · To what, where: plan, bows · 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 talked | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 talked | nsubj |
| 3 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 told | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 told | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Coyote | det |
| 7 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 told | nsubj |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 talked | conj |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 told | iobj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 plan | det |
| 11 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | obj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 leader | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 leader | nsubj |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 leader | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 leader | det |
| 16 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 plan | acl |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 made | punct |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 made | aux |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 told | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 talked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | past | bows = bow | then | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the Coyote | the plan | bows = bow | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient plan=Topic | |||
| 3 | leader | Coyote | the plan not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | make | past · perfect | the Coyote not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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