The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 38

Tall, thick grass grew on the dam, and he pulled armfuls of this and heaped it up, and then crawled under the pile to pass the night.

Who acts: Tall thick grass, grass · What happens: grow, pull, heap up, crawl, pass · To what, where: dam, armfuls, pile

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 (Tall thick grass, grass), 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	Tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grass	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Tall	punct
3	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grass	amod
4	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grew	nsubj
5	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 dam	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dam	det
8	dam	dam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grew	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pulled	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 pulled	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 pulled	nsubj
12	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grew	parataxis
13	armfuls	armful	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 pulled	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 this	case
15	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 armfuls	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 heaped	cc
17	heaped	heap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 pulled	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 heaped	obj
19	up	up	ADP	_	17 heaped	compound:prt
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 crawled	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 crawled	cc
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 crawled	advmod
23	crawled	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grew	conj
24	under	under	ADP	_	26 pile	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 pile	det
26	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 crawled	obl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 pass	mark
28	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 crawled	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 night	det
30	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pass	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	grow	past	Tall thick grass		the dam		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on dam=Location
2	pull	past	grass	armfuls of this			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent armful=Theme
3	heap up	past	grass not said here	dam			vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	crawl	past	Tall thick grass not said here		the pile	then	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under pile=Trajectory
5	pass	to-infinitive	Tall thick grass not said here			night	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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🌲 The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 38

The tree

Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 38