The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 181
One day, as he was sitting by the fire, Raven Arrow, in the shape of a white raven, flew into the lodge and lit on the ground by him.
Who acts: raven, One day · What happens: sit, fly, lit · To what, where: One day, shape, lodge, ground
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Nothing Child. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (raven, One day), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sitting | punct |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 sitting | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sitting | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sitting | aux |
| 7 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 day | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 fire | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fire | det |
| 10 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sitting | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Arrow | punct |
| 12 | Raven | Raven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Arrow | compound |
| 13 | Arrow | Arrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 fire | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 shape | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 shape | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 shape | det |
| 17 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sitting | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 raven | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 raven | det |
| 20 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 raven | amod |
| 21 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shape | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 23 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 lodge | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 lodge | det |
| 26 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 flew | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 lit | cc |
| 28 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 flew | conj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 ground | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 ground | det |
| 31 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lit | obl |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 him | case |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 lit | obl:agent |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | raven | One day not said here | the shape of a white raven | by the fire | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent day=Theme by fire=Location | ||
| 2 | fly | past | One day | into the lodge result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into lodge=Result | ||||
| 3 | lit | participle | One day not said here | the ground | raven obl:agent | tree rules |
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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