The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 143
Then, lifting the beaver up, it changed into the stick again, and, putting it safely in his bosom, he journeyed on.
Who acts: weight, brother · What happens: lift up, change, put, journey, bosom · To what, where: beaver, stick, weight, bosom
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 (weight, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 lifting | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | lifting | lift | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 changed | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 beaver | det |
| 5 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lifting | obj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 lifting | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lifting | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 changed | nsubj |
| 9 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 stick | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stick | det |
| 12 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 changed | obl |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 changed | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 putting | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 putting | cc |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 putting | punct |
| 17 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 changed | advcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 putting | obj |
| 19 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 17 putting | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 bosom | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 bosom | nmod:poss |
| 22 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 putting | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 journeyed | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 journeyed | nsubj |
| 25 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 changed | conj |
| 26 | on | on | ADV | _ | 25 journeyed | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift up | gerund | weight not said here | the beaver | then | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beaver=Theme | |||
| 2 | change | past | weight | again | into the stick result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into stick=Result | |||
| 3 | put | gerund | weight not said here | weight | brother's bosom | safely property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in bosom=Destination | ||
| 4 | journey | past | brother | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | bosom | brother | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=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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