The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 93
After a time some of the young Bulls came out, and began to roll the ring and to throw their sticks at it.
Who acts: some · What happens: come out, begin, roll, throw · To what, where: ring, sticks, game
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 (some), 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 | 9 came | obl |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 came | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Bulls | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Bulls | det |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Bulls | amod |
| 8 | Bulls | Bull | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 some | nmod |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 began | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 began | cc |
| 13 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 roll | mark |
| 15 | roll | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 began | xcomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ring | det |
| 17 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 roll | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 throw | cc |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 throw | mark |
| 20 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 roll | conj |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 sticks | nmod:poss |
| 22 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 throw | obj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 throw | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | some of the young Bulls | time | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | begin | past | some of the young Bulls not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | roll | to-infinitive | some of the young Bulls not said here | the ring | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme | ||||
| 4 | throw | to-infinitive | some of the young Bulls not said here | Bulls's sticks | game | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stick=Theme at it=Destination |
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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