The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Corn, sentence 73
Later, this young man became one of the head men and taught the people many things.
Who acts: young man · What happens: become, teach · To what, where: many things, people
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 (young man), 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 | Later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 became | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Later | punct |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 man | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 became | nsubj |
| 6 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 became | xcomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 men | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 men | det |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 men | compound |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 one | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 taught | cc |
| 13 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 became | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 people | det |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 taught | obj |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 things | amod |
| 17 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 taught | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | this young man | one of the head men xcomp; late property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | teach speech: other | past | this young man not said here | many things | the people | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient thing=Topic |
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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