The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 84
Then they all stood up and made ready to start, and the Coyote said to the Blackbird, “Friend, you stay here until the time comes.”
Who acts: others, Coyote, Blackbird, time · What happens: stand up, make, start, say, stay, come · To what, where: Blackbird · 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 (others, Coyote, Blackbird, time), 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 | 4 stood | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 stood | advmod |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 stood | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 made | cc |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | conj |
| 8 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 made | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 start | mark |
| 10 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ready | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Coyote | det |
| 14 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Blackbird | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Blackbird | det |
| 18 | Blackbird | blackbird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Friend | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Friend | punct |
| 21 | Friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Blackbird | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 stay | punct |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 stay | nsubj |
| 24 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | conj |
| 25 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 stay | advmod |
| 26 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 29 comes | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 time | det |
| 28 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 comes | nsubj |
| 29 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 stay | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand up | past | others = other | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | make | past | others = other not said here | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | start | to-infinitive | others = other not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the Coyote | the Blackbird and Friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to blackbird=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | stay in a quote | present | the Blackbird and Friend = blackbird | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | come in a quote | present | the time | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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