The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 105
And at last the whitehead seemed to understand, for after the fourth fierce rush, it slowly sailed around and settled on the edge of the nest.
Who acts: last, whitehead · What happens: seem, understand, sail around, settle
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last, whitehead), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 seemed | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 seemed | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 whitehead | det |
| 5 | whitehead | whitehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 last | nsubj |
| 6 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 understand | mark |
| 8 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 seemed | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rush | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 rush | case |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 rush | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 rush | det |
| 13 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 rush | amod |
| 14 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rush | amod |
| 15 | rush | rush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 understand | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sailed | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sailed | nsubj |
| 18 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 19 sailed | advmod |
| 19 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seemed | parataxis |
| 20 | around | around | ADV | _ | 19 sailed | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 settled | cc |
| 22 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 sailed | conj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 edge | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 edge | det |
| 25 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 settled | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 nest | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 nest | det |
| 28 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 edge | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | last the whitehead | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | understand | to-infinitive | last the whitehead not said here | for the fourth fierce rush | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | sail around | past | whitehead | around, slowly property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | settle | participle | whitehead not said here | on the edge of the nest | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on edge=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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