The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Corn, sentence 36
The first contained squash seed; the second beans, red and white, and the third corn, white, red, blue, and yellow.
What happens: contain · To what, where: first contained squash seed
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 seed | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 seed | amod |
| 3 | contained | contain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 seed | amod |
| 4 | squash | squash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seed | compound |
| 5 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 beans | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 beans | det |
| 8 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 beans | amod |
| 9 | beans | bean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 seed | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 red | punct |
| 11 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 beans | appos |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 white | cc |
| 13 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 red | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 corn | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 corn | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 corn | det |
| 17 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 corn | amod |
| 18 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seed | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 white | punct |
| 20 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 corn | amod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 red | punct |
| 22 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 white | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 blue | punct |
| 24 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 white | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 yellow | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 yellow | cc |
| 27 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 white | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | participle | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
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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