The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 235
They came nearer and nearer, and at last passed out of sight under the bank.
Who acts: geese · What happens: come, pass out · To what, where: sight, last
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 (geese), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 came | xcomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 nearer | cc |
| 5 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 nearer | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 passed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 passed | cc |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 last | case |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 passed | obl |
| 10 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 came | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 sight | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sight | case |
| 13 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 passed | obl |
| 14 | under | under | ADP | _ | 16 bank | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bank | det |
| 16 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 passed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | geese = goose | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pass out | participle | geese = goose not said here | sight | last | under the bank | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent sight=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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