The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 20
He brought them to her, and from the sinews she began to make a rope.
Who acts: husband, wife · What happens: bring, begin, make · To what, where: people, wife, sinews, rope
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 (husband, wife), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 brought | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 brought | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 began | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 began | cc |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 sinews | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sinews | det |
| 10 | sinews | sinew | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 began | obl |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 began | nsubj |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 brought | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 make | mark |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 began | xcomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 rope | det |
| 16 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | husband | people | wife | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to she=Destination | |||
| 2 | begin | past | wife | the sinews | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | wife not said here | a rope | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rope=Product |
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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