The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 99
After a little while the Coyote pretended that he felt better, and he got up and went over to where the young Bulls were sitting, looking on at the game, and sat down with them, and watched the play with the others.
Who acts: Coyote, young Bulls · What happens: pretend, feel, get up, go over, sit, look on · To what, where: play
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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 little | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 little | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pretended | obl |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 pretended | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Coyote | det |
| 6 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 pretended | nsubj |
| 7 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 felt | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 felt | nsubj |
| 10 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pretended | ccomp |
| 11 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 felt | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 got | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 got | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 got | nsubj |
| 15 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pretended | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 got | compound:prt |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 got | conj |
| 19 | over | over | ADV | _ | 18 went | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 26 sitting | mark |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 sitting | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Bulls | det |
| 23 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Bulls | amod |
| 24 | Bulls | bull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 sitting | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 sitting | aux |
| 26 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 went | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 looking | punct |
| 28 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 sitting | advcl |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 looking | compound:prt |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 game | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 game | det |
| 32 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 looking | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 sat | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 sat | cc |
| 35 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pretended | conj |
| 36 | down | down | ADP | _ | 35 sat | compound:prt |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 them | case |
| 38 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 sat | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 watched | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 watched | cc |
| 41 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pretended | advcl |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 play | det |
| 43 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 watched | obj |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 others | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 others | det |
| 46 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 watched | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pretended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | past | the Coyote | after a little | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | Coyote | good property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | get up | past | Coyote | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | go over | past | Coyote not said here | over property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sit | past · progressive | the young Bulls | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | look on | gerund | the young Bulls not said here | at the game | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at game=Theme | ||||
| 7 | sit down | past | the Coyote not said here | with Bulls = bull | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | watch | past | the Coyote not said here | the play | with the others | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent play=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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