The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 133
Then they all bade him good-bye, and he dived into the pool, and presently rose to the surface of the pond.
Who acts: medicines, power · What happens: bade, dive, rise · To what, where: power, pool, surface
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 (medicines, power), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 bade | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bade | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 they | det |
| 4 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bade | obj |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bade | xcomp |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 good | punct |
| 8 | bye | bye | INTJ | _ | 6 good | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dived | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 dived | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 dived | nsubj |
| 12 | dived | dive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bade | conj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 pool | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pool | det |
| 15 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dived | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rose | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 rose | cc |
| 18 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 19 rose | advmod |
| 19 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bade | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 surface | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 surface | det |
| 22 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rose | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 pond | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 pond | det |
| 25 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 surface | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bade | past | medicines = medicine | power | then | good property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | dive | past | power | the pool | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into pool=Location | ||||
| 3 | rise | past | medicines = medicine not said here | the surface of the pond | presently property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to surface=Initial_Location |
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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