The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 25
It seemed to her that it did not reach the ground, but she thought that perhaps it reached almost down to it, and she made up her mind that she would try to descend.
Who acts: It, rope, wife · What happens: seem, not reach, think, reach, make up, try · To what, where: wife, ground, mind · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (It, rope, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seemed | nsubj |
| 2 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 her | case |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seemed | obl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 reach | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 reach | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 reach | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 reach | advmod |
| 9 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 seemed | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ground | det |
| 11 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reach | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thought | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 thought | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 thought | nsubj |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seemed | parataxis |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 reached | mark |
| 17 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 19 reached | advmod |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 reached | nsubj |
| 19 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 thought | ccomp |
| 20 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 21 down | advmod |
| 21 | down | down | ADV | _ | 19 reached | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 reached | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 made | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 made | cc |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 made | nsubj |
| 27 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 thought | conj |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 made | compound:prt |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 mind | nmod:poss |
| 30 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 made | obj |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 try | mark |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 try | nsubj |
| 33 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 try | aux |
| 34 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 made | advcl |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 descend | mark |
| 36 | descend | descend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 try | xcomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | It | wife | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not reach | past · do-support | rope | the ground | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ground=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | wife | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | reach | past | rope | ground | down, perhaps property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | make up | past | wife | wife's mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 6 | try | would | wife | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | descend not said to happen | to-infinitive | wife not said here | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | mind | wife | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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