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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 56

After swimming a few strokes, he felt the pressure of the water suddenly give way, and, opening his eyes, found that he was in a great circular lodge.

Who acts: companion, pressure · What happens: swim, feel, give, open, find, be · To what, where: few strokes, way, eyes, great circular lodge, water · 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 (companion, pressure), 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

markadvcldetamodobjpunctnsubjdetnsubjcasedetnmodadvmodccompobjpunctccpunctadvclnmod:possobjpunctconjmarknsubjcopcasedetamodamodccomppunctrootAfterSCONJswimmingVERBaDETfewADJstrokesNOUN,PUNCThePRONfeltVERBtheDETpressureNOUNofADPtheDETwaterNOUNsuddenlyADVgiveVERBwayNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJ,PUNCTopeningVERBhisPRONeyesNOUN,PUNCTfoundVERBthatSCONJhePRONwasAUXinADPaDETgreatADJcircularADJlodgeNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AfterafterSCONJ_2 swimmingmark
2swimmingswimVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part8 feltadvcl
3aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art5 strokesdet
4fewfewADJDegree=Pos5 strokesamod
5strokesstrokeNOUNNumber=Plur2 swimmingobj
6,,PUNCT_2 swimmingpunct
7hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 feltnsubj
8feltfeelVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 pressuredet
10pressurepressureNOUNNumber=Sing15 givensubj
11ofofADP_13 watercase
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 waterdet
13waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing10 pressurenmod
14suddenlysuddenlyADV_15 giveadvmod
15givegiveVERBVerbForm=Inf8 feltccomp
16waywayNOUNNumber=Sing15 giveobj
17,,PUNCT_20 openingpunct
18andandCCONJ_20 openingcc
19,,PUNCT_20 openingpunct
20openingopenVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part8 feltadvcl
21hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 eyesnmod:poss
22eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur20 openingobj
23,,PUNCT_24 foundpunct
24foundfindVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 feltconj
25thatthatSCONJ_32 lodgemark
26hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs32 lodgensubj
27wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin32 lodgecop
28ininADP_32 lodgecase
29aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art32 lodgedet
30greatgreatADJDegree=Pos32 lodgeamod
31circularcircularADJDegree=Pos32 lodgeamod
32lodgelodgeNOUNNumber=Sing24 foundccomp
33..PUNCT_8 feltpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1swimgerundcompanion not said herea few strokesvn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stroke=Trajectory
2feelpastcompanionvn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3giveinfinitivethe pressure of the waterwaysuddenly propertyvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
4opengerundcompanion not said herecompanion's eyesvn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme
5findpastcompanion not said herevn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
6ispastcompaniona great circular lodgetree rules
7pressthe waternom pressure «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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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