The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Corn, sentence 67
Now that they had plenty of meat they stayed in one place, and when spring came the young man put the seed in the ground.
Who acts: boys, spring · What happens: have, stay, come, put · To what, where: plenty, meat, one place, seed, ground
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 (boys, spring), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 had | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 4 had | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 meat | case |
| 7 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plenty | nmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 stayed | nsubj |
| 9 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 meat | acl:relcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 place | case |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 place | nummod |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stayed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 put | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 put | cc |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 came | advmod |
| 16 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 put | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 19 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | amod |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | nsubj |
| 21 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 seed | det |
| 23 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 put | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 ground | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ground | det |
| 26 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 put | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | boys = boy | plenty of meat | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient | |||
| 2 | stay | past | boys = boy | meat not said here | one place | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme meat=Location | |||
| 3 | come | past | spring | the young man nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | put | past | boys = boy not said here | the seed | the ground | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent seed=Theme in ground=Destination |
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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