The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 34
At last he found the hole that she had dug, and when he looked down through it he saw her there hanging to the rope.
Who acts: husband, wife · What happens: find, dig, look down, see, hang · To what, where: hole, last, wife
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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 found | nsubj |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hole | det |
| 6 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 dug | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 dug | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dug | aux |
| 10 | dug | dig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 hole | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 saw | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 saw | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 looked | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 looked | nsubj |
| 15 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 saw | parataxis |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 looked | compound:prt |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 looked | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | obj |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 saw | advmod |
| 23 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 saw | xcomp |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 rope | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 rope | det |
| 26 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hanging | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | husband | the hole | last | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent hole=Theme at last=Asset | |||
| 2 | dig | past · perfect · passive | the hole | wife nsubj | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look down | past | husband | through hole | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | husband | wife | there | tree rules | |||
| 5 | hang | gerund | wife not said here | to the rope | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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