The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 23
She took with her also a long stake, and drove it into the ground near the hole.
Who acts: wife · What happens: take, drive · To what, where: long stake, rope, ground
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 (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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 her | case |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | obl |
| 5 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 stake | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 stake | det |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stake | amod |
| 8 | stake | stake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 drove | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 drove | cc |
| 11 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 drove | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 ground | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ground | det |
| 15 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drove | obl |
| 16 | near | near | ADP | _ | 18 hole | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hole | det |
| 18 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drove | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | wife | a long stake | with child | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | drive | past | wife not said here | rope | the ground | near the hole | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into ground=Destination near hole=Initial_Location |
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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