The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 41
Near by this field was a poor little lodge, in which lived an old woman and her little grandson.
Who acts: poor little lodge · What happens: be, live · To what, where: poor little lodge, field, old woman
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 (poor little lodge), 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 | Near | near | ADP | _ | 4 field | case |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 field | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 field | det |
| 4 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lodge | obl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 lodge | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 lodge | det |
| 7 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lodge | amod |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lodge | amod |
| 9 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lived | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 lived | nsubj |
| 13 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 lodge | acl:relcl |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 woman | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 woman | amod |
| 16 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lived | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 grandson | cc |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 grandson | nmod:poss |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 grandson | amod |
| 20 | grandson | grandson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 woman | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lodge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a poor little lodge | this field | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | past | a poor little lodge | a old woman and woman's little grandson | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme woman=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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