The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 142
In a little while there were enough to bear his weight, and he crossed to the other side in safety.
Who acts: brother · What happens: bear, cross · To what, where: weight, little, other side
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 (brother), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 little | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 little | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bear | obl |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 were | mark |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 were | expl |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 bear | aux |
| 7 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 6 were | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 bear | mark |
| 9 | bear | bear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 weight | nmod:poss |
| 11 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bear | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 crossed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 crossed | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 crossed | nsubj |
| 15 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 bear | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 side | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 side | det |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 side | amod |
| 19 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 crossed | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 safety | case |
| 21 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 side | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 bear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past | brother's weight | a little | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Patient | ||||
| 2 | cross | past | brother | the other side in safety | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to side=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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