The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 1
One hot night in summer two girls climbed up on an arbor in front of an earth lodge to sleep where it was cool.
Who acts: two girls, lodge · What happens: climb up, sleep, be · To what, where: arbor
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Star Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two girls, lodge), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 night | nummod |
| 2 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 night | amod |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 climbed | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 summer | case |
| 5 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 night | nmod |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 girls | nummod |
| 7 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 climbed | nsubj |
| 8 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 climbed | compound:prt |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 arbor | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 arbor | det |
| 12 | arbor | arbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 climbed | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 front | case |
| 14 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 arbor | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 lodge | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 lodge | det |
| 17 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lodge | compound |
| 18 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 front | nmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 sleep | mark |
| 20 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 climbed | advcl |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 cool | advmod |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 cool | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 cool | cop |
| 24 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sleep | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb up | past | two girls | a arbor in front of a earth lodge | night | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on arbor=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | sleep | to-infinitive | two girls not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | lodge | cool 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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