The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Corn, sentence 26
After they had passed through this gate they went on, and it seemed as if they were passing over a big water.
Who acts: things, it · What happens: pass, go on, seem · To what, where: things, gate, big water
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 (things, it), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 4 passed | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | aux |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 gate | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 gate | det |
| 7 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | obl |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gate | acl:relcl |
| 10 | on | on | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seemed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 seemed | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 seemed | nsubj |
| 14 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | conj |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 passing | mark |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 passing | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 passing | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 passing | aux |
| 19 | passing | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 seemed | xcomp |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 water | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 water | det |
| 22 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 water | amod |
| 23 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 passing | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · perfect · passive | things = thing | this gate | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme through gate=Destination | ||||
| 2 | go on | past | things = thing | this gate not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | it | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | pass a condition, not said to happen | past · progressive | things = thing | a big water | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over water=Location |
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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