The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Corn, sentence 54
The young man gave to each person all he could carry, but while he was handing out the pieces, his father was trying to pull off the robe the hind-quarters of the buffalo and hide them.
Who acts: young man, man, father · What happens: give, carry, hand out, try, pull off, hide · To what, where: all, pieces, robe
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 (young man, man, father), 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 person | case |
| 6 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 person | det |
| 7 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obl |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 gave | iobj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 carry | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 carry | aux |
| 11 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 all | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 trying | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 trying | cc |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 handing | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 handing | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 handing | aux |
| 17 | handing | hand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 trying | advcl |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 handing | compound:prt |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 pieces | det |
| 20 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 handing | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 handing | punct |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 father | nmod:poss |
| 23 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 trying | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 trying | aux |
| 25 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 gave | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 pull | mark |
| 27 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 trying | xcomp |
| 28 | off | off | ADP | _ | 27 pull | compound:prt |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 robe | det |
| 30 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 pull | obj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 quarters | det |
| 32 | hind | hind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 quarters | amod |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 hind | punct |
| 34 | quarters | quarter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 pull | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 buffalo | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 buffalo | det |
| 37 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 quarters | nmod |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 hide | cc |
| 39 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 pull | conj |
| 40 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 hide | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the young man | all | to each person | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent all=Theme to person=Recipient | |||
| 2 | carry | could | man | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hand out | past · progressive | man | the pieces | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | ||||
| 4 | try | past · progressive | man's father | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | pull off not said to happen | to-infinitive | man's father not said here | the robe | the hind quarters of the buffalo obj | tree rules | |||
| 6 | hide | present | man's father not said here | pieces = piece | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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