The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Corn, sentence 68
When the people first saw these strange plants growing they wondered at them, for they were new and different from anything that they had ever seen growing on the prairie.
Who acts: people, strange plants, boys · What happens: see, grow, wonder, be · To what, where: strange plants, anything, prairie
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, strange plants, boys), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 saw | advmod |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 plants | det |
| 7 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 plants | amod |
| 8 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 saw | obj |
| 9 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 plants | acl |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wondered | nsubj |
| 11 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 growing | ccomp |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wondered | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 new | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 new | case |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 new | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 new | cop |
| 18 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 saw | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 different | cc |
| 20 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 new | conj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 anything | case |
| 22 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 different | obl |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 seen | mark |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 seen | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 seen | aux |
| 26 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 27 seen | advmod |
| 27 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 anything | acl:relcl |
| 28 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 seen | xcomp |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 prairie | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 prairie | det |
| 31 | prairie | prairie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 growing | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the people | this strange plants | first property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plant=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | grow | gerund | this strange plants not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | past | people | at boys = boy | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is | past | boys = boy | new property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | boys = boy not said here | anything | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | see | past · perfect | boys = boy | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | grow | gerund | boys = boy not said here | the prairie | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on prairie=Location |
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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