The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Corn, sentence 40
After that they can eat a part of what grows, but they must always save some for seed.
Who acts: people, part · What happens: eat, grow, save · To what, where: part, some
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 (people, part), 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 | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 eat | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 eat | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 eat | aux |
| 5 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 part | det |
| 7 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eat | obj |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 10 grows | mark |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 grows | nsubj |
| 10 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 part | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 save | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 save | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 save | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 save | aux |
| 15 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 16 save | advmod |
| 16 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 eat | conj |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 save | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 seed | case |
| 19 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 save | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | can | people | a part | after that | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Patient | |||
| 2 | grow | present | a part | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | save | must | people | some | for seed; always property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent some=Theme for seed=Source |
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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