The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 39
It was a warm, soft nest, and he was already almost asleep when some one called his name.
Who acts: dam, grass · What happens: be, call, name · To what, where: warm soft nest, one · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (dam, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 nest | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 nest | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 nest | det |
| 4 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 nest | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 warm | punct |
| 6 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 nest | amod |
| 7 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 asleep | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 asleep | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 asleep | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 asleep | cop |
| 12 | already | already | ADV | _ | 14 asleep | advmod |
| 13 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 14 asleep | advmod |
| 14 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 nest | acl:relcl |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 called | advmod |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 one | det |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 called | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 asleep | advcl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 name | nmod:poss |
| 20 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 called | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 nest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | dam | a warm soft nest | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | grass | a warm soft nest not said here | almost, asleep property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | call | participle · passive | some one | grass's name obj | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme name=Result | ||||
| 4 | name | grass | nom name «communication 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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