The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 51
Presently they reached the edge of the ice; just beyond, a large beaver house rose above the water.
Who acts: stranger, large beaver house · What happens: reach, rise · To what, where: edge, water
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 (stranger, large beaver house), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 3 reached | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 edge | det |
| 5 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 ice | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ice | det |
| 8 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 edge | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 beyond | punct |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 beyond | advmod |
| 11 | beyond | beyond | ADV | _ | 3 reached | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rose | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 14 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 house | amod |
| 15 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 house | compound |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rose | nsubj |
| 17 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reached | conj |
| 18 | above | above | ADP | _ | 20 water | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 water | det |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rose | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | stranger | the edge of the ice | beyond, presently property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent edge=Theme | |||
| 2 | rise | past | a large beaver house | the water | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above water=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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