The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 40
He lifted his head and looked out from under the grass, and saw standing near by a handsome young man, very beautifully dressed.
Who acts: grass · What happens: lift, look out, see, stand, dress · To what, where: head, grass
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lifted | nsubj |
| 2 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 head | nmod:poss |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lifted | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 looked | cc |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lifted | conj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 looked | compound:prt |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 grass | case |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 grass | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 grass | det |
| 11 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looked | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 saw | cc |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lifted | parataxis |
| 15 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 saw | xcomp |
| 16 | near | near | ADV | _ | 15 standing | advmod |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 man | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 19 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 man | amod |
| 20 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 man | amod |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 standing | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 dressed | punct |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 beautifully | advmod |
| 24 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 25 dressed | advmod |
| 25 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 saw | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | grass | grass's head | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look out | past | grass not said here | the grass | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | see | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | stand | gerund | by a handsome young man; near property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by man=Location | |||||
| 5 | dress | participle | beautifully property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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