The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Corn, sentence 76
In the fall they should take the ear of corn out of the bundle and rub the piece of fat over it.
Who acts: things · What happens: take, rub · To what, where: ear, fall, piece, fat
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 (things), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 fall | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fall | det |
| 3 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 take | nsubj |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 take | aux |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ear | det |
| 8 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 corn | case |
| 10 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ear | nmod |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 bundle | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 bundle | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bundle | det |
| 14 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rub | cc |
| 16 | rub | rub | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 take | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 piece | det |
| 18 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rub | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 fat | case |
| 20 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 piece | nmod |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 rub | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | should | things = thing | the ear of corn | the fall | out the bundle | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent ear=Theme out bundle=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | rub | infinitive | things = thing not said here | the piece of fat | fat | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent piece=Theme over it=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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