The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Corn, sentence 24
Every year one hair drops from the hide of this bull.
Who acts: one hair · What happens: drop · To what, where: hide
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 (one hair), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 year | det |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drops | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 hair | nummod |
| 4 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drops | nsubj |
| 5 | drops | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 hide | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hide | det |
| 8 | hide | hide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drops | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 bull | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 bull | det |
| 11 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hide | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 drops | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | present | one hair | the hide of this bull | year | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from hide=Trajectory |
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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