The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 231
The first bird that came was a buzzard, then an eagle, then hawks and owls, all kinds of birds that kill their prey.
Who acts: first bird, birds · What happens: come, be, kill · To what, where: buzzard, prey
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first bird, birds), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bird | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 bird | amod |
| 3 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 buzzard | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bird | acl:relcl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 buzzard | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 buzzard | det |
| 8 | buzzard | buzzard | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 eagle | punct |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 eagle | advmod |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 eagle | det |
| 12 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 buzzard | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hawks | punct |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 hawks | advmod |
| 15 | hawks | hawk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 eagle | appos |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 owls | cc |
| 17 | owls | owl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hawks | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 kinds | punct |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 kinds | det |
| 20 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 buzzard | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 birds | case |
| 22 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 kinds | nmod |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 kill | nsubj |
| 24 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 birds | acl:relcl |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 prey | nmod:poss |
| 26 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 kill | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 buzzard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the first bird | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | the first bird | a buzzard and all kinds of birds | a eagle appos; all kinds of birds conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | kill | present | birds | birds's prey | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=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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