The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Corn, sentence 70
They found that besides being pretty to look at they were good to eat, for when the young man had gathered the crop he gave the people a little to taste, so that they might know that the words that he had spoken were true.
Who acts: boys, young man, crop, words · What happens: find, be, look, eat, gather, give · To what, where: people, words · 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 (boys, young man, crop, words), 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 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 look | mark |
| 4 | besides | besides | ADP | _ | 6 pretty | mark |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 pretty | cop |
| 6 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 8 look | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 look | mark |
| 8 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 found | ccomp |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 good | case |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 good | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 good | cop |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 look | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 eat | mark |
| 14 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 good | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 gathered | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 gathered | mark |
| 17 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 22 gathered | mark |
| 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 | 22 gathered | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 gathered | aux |
| 22 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 look | parataxis |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 crop | det |
| 24 | crop | crop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 gave | nsubj |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 gave | nsubj |
| 26 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 gathered | parataxis |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 people | det |
| 28 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 gave | iobj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 little | det |
| 30 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 people | appos |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 taste | mark |
| 32 | taste | taste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 little | xcomp |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 know | punct |
| 34 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 38 know | mark |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 so | fixed |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 know | nsubj |
| 37 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 know | aux |
| 38 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 gave | conj |
| 39 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 47 true | mark |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 words | det |
| 41 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 true | nsubj |
| 42 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 spoken | nsubj |
| 44 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 spoken | aux |
| 45 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 words | acl:relcl |
| 46 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 true | cop |
| 47 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 know | ccomp |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | boys = boy | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | gerund | pretty property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | boys = boy | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | eat | to-infinitive | boys = boy not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | gather | past · perfect | the young man | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | give | past | the crop | the people | man nsubj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | |||
| 8 | taste | to-infinitive | the crop not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 9 | know | might | boys = boy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 10 | speak speech: other | past · perfect · passive | the words | man nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 11 | is | past | the words | true property | tree rules |
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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