The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 26

All around the hole she dug the earth away so as to make it large enough for her body to pass through.

Who acts: wife, body · What happens: dig away, make, pass through · To what, where: earth, hole

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, body), 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	All	all	ADV	_	6 dug	advmod
2	around	around	ADP	_	4 hole	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hole	det
4	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dug	obl
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dug	nsubj
6	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 earth	det
8	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dug	obj
9	away	away	ADV	_	6 dug	advmod
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 make	advmod
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 make	mark
12	to	to	PART	_	13 make	mark
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 dug	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 make	obj
15	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 make	xcomp
16	enough	enough	ADV	_	15 large	advmod
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 pass	mark
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 body	nmod:poss
19	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pass	nsubj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 pass	mark
21	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 large	advcl
22	through	through	ADV	_	21 pass	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dug	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dig away	past	wife	the earth	the hole	all, away property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent earth=Theme around hole=Location
2	make	to-infinitive	wife not said here	earth		large property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
3	pass through	to-infinitive	wife's body			through property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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🌲 The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 26

The tree

Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 26