The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 83
Near this camp stood a tree, and every day an eagle came and alighted in the tree.
Who acts: eagle · What happens: stand, come, alight · To what, where: tree, camp
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 (eagle), 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 | Near | near | ADP | _ | 3 camp | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 camp | det |
| 3 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 came | cc |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 day | det |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 eagle | det |
| 12 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 alighted | cc |
| 15 | alighted | alight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 came | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 tree | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tree | det |
| 18 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 alighted | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a tree | this camp | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tree=Theme near camp=Destination | ||||
| 2 | come | past | a eagle | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | alight | participle | a eagle not said here | the tree | 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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