The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Corn, sentence 23
He had to move to one side to let the Wind and the young man pass through.
Who acts: bull, young man · What happens: have, move, let, pass through · To what, where: one side, Wind
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The First Corn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bull, young man), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 move | mark |
| 4 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 side | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 side | nummod |
| 7 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 move | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 let | mark |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 move | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Wind | det |
| 11 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 let | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 pass | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pass | nsubj |
| 16 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 17 | through | through | ADV | _ | 16 pass | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | bull | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | move | to-infinitive | bull not said here | one side | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to side=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | let | to-infinitive | bull not said here | the Wind | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pass through | present | the young man | through property | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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