The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 6
When this girl that had chosen the star awoke, she was in a strange country, and saw strange people about her.
Who acts: girl, she · What happens: choose, awake, be, see · To what, where: girl, strange country, strange people
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 (girl, she), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 awoke | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 awoke | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 chosen | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 chosen | aux |
| 6 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 girl | acl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 star | det |
| 8 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chosen | obj |
| 9 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 country | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 country | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 country | cop |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 country | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 country | det |
| 15 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 country | amod |
| 16 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 awoke | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saw | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 saw | cc |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 awoke | conj |
| 20 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 people | amod |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 saw | obj |
| 22 | about | about | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 people | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past · perfect · passive | this girl | the star obj | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary star=Theme | ||||
| 2 | awake | past | this girl | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | she | a strange country | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | past | this girl not said here | strange people | about her = she | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus |
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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