The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Corn, sentence 69
They liked the color of the young stalks, and the way they tasselled out, and the way the ears formed.
Who acts: boys, way · What happens: like, tassell out, form · To what, where: color, way
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, way), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 liked | nsubj |
| 2 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 color | det |
| 4 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 liked | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 stalks | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stalks | det |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stalks | amod |
| 8 | stalks | stalk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 color | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tasselled | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 tasselled | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 way | det |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tasselled | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tasselled | nsubj |
| 14 | tasselled | tassell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 liked | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 tasselled | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 formed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 formed | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 way | det |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 formed | nsubj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ears | det |
| 21 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 way | conj |
| 22 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 liked | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 liked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | past | boys = boy | the color of the young stalks | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot color=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tassell out | past | boys = boy | the way | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | form | past | the way and the ears | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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