The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 141
At once the beaver began to fell some trees, and, as fast as he cut them into lengths, New Robe bound them together.
Who acts: beaver, brother, New Robe · What happens: begin, fall, cut, bind · To what, where: trees, lengths
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 (beaver, brother, New Robe), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 once | case |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 began | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 beaver | det |
| 4 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 began | nsubj |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 fell | mark |
| 7 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 began | advcl |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 trees | det |
| 9 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fell | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cut | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 cut | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fast | punct |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 fast | advmod |
| 14 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 cut | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 cut | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 cut | nsubj |
| 17 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 began | parataxis |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 cut | obj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 lengths | case |
| 20 | lengths | length | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 cut | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 bound | punct |
| 22 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Robe | amod |
| 23 | Robe | Robe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 bound | nsubj |
| 24 | bound | bind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 began | conj |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 bound | obj |
| 26 | together | together | ADV | _ | 24 bound | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the beaver | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | fall | past | the beaver not said here | some trees | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient tree=Result | ||||
| 3 | cut | past | brother | trees = tree | lengths | fast property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent they=Material into length=Product | ||
| 4 | bind | past | New Robe | trees = tree | together property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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