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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Ragged Head, sentence 54

He put up his left hand to ward off the blow, and with his right he pushed the muzzle of his shot-gun against the person’s body and pulled both triggers.

Who acts: boy · What happens: put up, ward off, push, pull · To what, where: left hand, blow, muzzle, body, triggers

This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Ragged Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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

nsubjcompound:prtnmod:possamodobjmarkadvclcompound:prtdetobjpunctcccasenmod:possoblnsubjconjdetobjcasenmod:posscompoundpunctnmodcasedetnmod:posscaseoblccconjdetobjpunctrootHePRONputVERBupADPhisPRONleftADJhandNOUNtoPARTwardVERBoffADPtheDETblowNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJwithADPhisPRONrightNOUNhePRONpushedVERBtheDETmuzzleNOUNofADPhisPRONshotNOUN-PUNCTgunNOUNagainstADPtheDETpersonNOUN’sPARTbodyNOUNandCCONJpulledVERBbothDETtriggersNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 putnsubj
2putputVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3upupADP_2 putcompound:prt
4hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs6 handnmod:poss
5leftleftADJDegree=Pos6 handamod
6handhandNOUNNumber=Sing2 putobj
7totoPART_8 wardmark
8wardwardVERBVerbForm=Inf2 putadvcl
9offoffADP_8 wardcompound:prt
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 blowdet
11blowblowNOUNNumber=Sing8 wardobj
12,,PUNCT_18 pushedpunct
13andandCCONJ_18 pushedcc
14withwithADP_16 rightcase
15hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs16 rightnmod:poss
16rightrightNOUNNumber=Sing18 pushedobl
17hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 pushednsubj
18pushedpushVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 putconj
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 muzzledet
20muzzlemuzzleNOUNNumber=Sing18 pushedobj
21ofofADP_25 guncase
22hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs25 gunnmod:poss
23shotshotNOUNNumber=Sing25 guncompound
24--PUNCT_23 shotpunct
25gungunNOUNNumber=Sing20 muzzlenmod
26againstagainstADP_30 bodycase
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 persondet
28personpersonNOUNNumber=Sing30 bodynmod:poss
29’s'sPART_28 personcase
30bodybodyNOUNNumber=Sing18 pushedobl
31andandCCONJ_32 pulledcc
32pulledpullVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 pushedconj
33bothbothDETPronType=Tot34 triggersdet
34triggerstriggerNOUNNumber=Plur32 pulledobj
35..PUNCT_2 putpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1put uppastboyboy's left handvn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal
2ward offto-infinitiveboy not said herethe blowtree rules
3pushpastboythe muzzle of boy's shot gunthe person's bodywith boy's rightvn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent muzzle=Theme against body=Trajectory
4pullpastboy not said hereboth triggersvn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trigger=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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