The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 10
He was lying half asleep in a patch of willows when the girls came along, and, stopping near him, sat down and kept on talking.
Who acts: Robe, girls · What happens: lie, come along, stop, sit down, keep, talk · To what, where: patch
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Beaver Stick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Robe, girls), 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 | 3 lying | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lying | aux |
| 3 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 5 asleep | advmod |
| 5 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lying | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 patch | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 patch | det |
| 8 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lying | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 willows | case |
| 10 | willows | willow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 patch | nmod |
| 11 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 came | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 girls | det |
| 13 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lying | advcl |
| 15 | along | along | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stopping | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stopping | cc |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stopping | punct |
| 19 | stopping | stop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 lying | conj |
| 20 | near | near | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stopping | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sat | punct |
| 23 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lying | parataxis |
| 24 | down | down | ADP | _ | 23 sat | compound:prt |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 kept | cc |
| 26 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 sat | conj |
| 27 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 28 talking | mark |
| 28 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 kept | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past · progressive | Robe | a patch of willows | asleep property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in patch=Location | |||
| 2 | come along | past | the girls | along property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stop | gerund | Robe not said here | near Robe | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | sit down | past | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | keep | participle | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | talk | gerund | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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