The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 96
Sometimes he would get over near to where the ring was being rolled, and then the young Bulls would call out: “Here, hold on!
Who acts: Coyote, young Bulls · What happens: get over, roll, call out, hold on · To what, where: ring · 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 (Coyote, young Bulls), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 get | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 get | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | ADV | _ | 6 near | advmod |
| 6 | near | near | ADV | _ | 4 get | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 13 rolled | mark |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 rolled | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ring | det |
| 10 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rolled | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 rolled | aux:pass |
| 12 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 rolled | aux:pass |
| 13 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 near | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 call | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 call | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 call | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Bulls | det |
| 18 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Bulls | amod |
| 19 | Bulls | Bull | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 call | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 call | aux |
| 21 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 get | parataxis |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 call | compound:prt |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 Here | punct |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 Here | punct |
| 25 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 call | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 hold | punct |
| 27 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | parataxis |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 hold | compound:prt |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get over | would | Coyote | near, sometimes property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | roll | past · passive | the ring | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | call out speech: assert | would | the young Bulls | then | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | hold on in a quote | infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «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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