The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Corn, sentence 29
Here were many people—great crowds of them.
What happens: be · To what, where: many people
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: 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 people | advmod |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 people | cop |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 people | amod |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 crowds | punct |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 crowds | amod |
| 7 | crowds | crowd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 people | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 crowds | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 people | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | many people and great crowds of crowds | here | great crowds of crowds conj | tree rules |
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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