The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Corn, sentence 62
The people wondered where this could be, for they had travelled far in all directions looking for buffalo.
Who acts: people, directions · What happens: wonder, travell, look · To what, where: this, directions · Speech: someone speaks here
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, directions), 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 | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wondered | nsubj |
| 3 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 travelled | advmod |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 travelled | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 travelled | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 travelled | aux:pass |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 travelled | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 travelled | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 travelled | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 travelled | aux |
| 12 | travelled | travell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 wondered | ccomp |
| 13 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 travelled | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 directions | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 directions | det |
| 16 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 travelled | obl |
| 17 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 directions | acl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 buffalo | case |
| 19 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 looking | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wondered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | past | the people | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | travell | could · perfect · passive | this | all directions | people nsubj; far property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | look | gerund | all directions not said here | for buffalo | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for buffalo=Theme |
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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