The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 32
He took an arrow from his quiver and shot the bird, and as it fell, it caught among the branches and lodged there.
Who acts: boy, bird · What happens: take, shoot, fall, catch, lodge, quiver · To what, where: arrow, quiver, bird
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 (boy, bird), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 arrow | det |
| 4 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 quiver | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 quiver | nmod:poss |
| 7 | quiver | quiver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 shot | cc |
| 9 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bird | det |
| 11 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shot | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 caught | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 caught | cc |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 fell | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fell | nsubj |
| 16 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 caught | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fell | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 caught | nsubj |
| 19 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | parataxis |
| 20 | among | among | ADP | _ | 22 branches | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 branches | det |
| 22 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 caught | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 lodged | cc |
| 24 | lodged | lodge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 caught | conj |
| 25 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 lodged | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | boy | a arrow | boy's quiver | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme from quiver=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | shoot | past | boy not said here | the bird | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | bird | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | catch | past | bird | among the branches | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | lodge | past | bird not said here | there | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | quiver | boy | nom quiver «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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