The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 57
We can play there together with our bows and arrows.”
Who acts: We · What happens: play
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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 play | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 play | aux |
| 3 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 play | advmod |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 play | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 bows | case |
| 7 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 bows | nmod:poss |
| 8 | bows | bow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 play | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 arrows | cc |
| 10 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bows | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 play | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 play | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | can | We | there | with our bows and arrows; together property | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with bow=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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