The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 138
He placed a little cutting in the water, and it changed at once into a large, pure white beaver.
Who acts: power, cutting · What happens: place, change · To what, where: little cutting, water
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 (power, cutting), 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 placed | nsubj |
| 2 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cutting | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cutting | amod |
| 5 | cutting | cutting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 placed | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 water | det |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 placed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 changed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 changed | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 changed | nsubj |
| 12 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 placed | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 once | case |
| 14 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 changed | obl |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 beaver | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 beaver | det |
| 17 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 beaver | amod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 large | punct |
| 19 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 white | amod |
| 20 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 beaver | amod |
| 21 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 changed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | power | a little cutting | the water | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cutting=Theme in water=Destination | |||
| 2 | change | past | cutting | into a large white beaver result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into beaver=Result |
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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