The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 80
As he disappeared, a strange-looking bird was seen flying the way the thunder was muttering.
Who acts: Wolf, looking bird, thunder · What happens: disappear, look, see, fly, mutter · To what, where: looking bird, way
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wolf, looking bird, thunder), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 disappeared | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 disappeared | nsubj |
| 3 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 seen | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 disappeared | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bird | det |
| 6 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 looking | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 strange | punct |
| 8 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 bird | amod |
| 9 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 seen | aux:pass |
| 11 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 seen | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 way | det |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flying | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 thunder | det |
| 16 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 muttering | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 muttering | aux |
| 18 | muttering | mutter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 way | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disappear | past | Wolf | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | see | past · passive | a looking bird | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fly | gerund | a looking bird not said here | the way | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | mutter speech: assert | past · progressive | the thunder | the way not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
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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