The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Corn, sentence 47
He had been gone so long that they had thought him dead.
What happens: go, think · To what, where: father, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 gone | aux:pass |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 long | advmod |
| 6 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 gone | advmod |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 thought | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 thought | aux |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 gone | advcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thought | obj |
| 12 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 thought | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect · passive | father | long property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past · perfect · passive | people | father obj; dead property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme he=Attribute |
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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