The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 57
From the doorway a pool of water extended into the centre of it, and between its edge and the walls were beds of soft and beautiful robes.
What happens: extend, be · To what, where: pool, doorway, beds
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: 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 doorway | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 doorway | det |
| 3 | doorway | doorway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 extended | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pool | det |
| 5 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 extended | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pool | nmod |
| 8 | extended | extend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 centre | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 centre | det |
| 11 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 extended | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 centre | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 edge | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 edge | cc |
| 16 | between | between | ADP | _ | 18 edge | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 edge | nmod:poss |
| 18 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 extended | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 walls | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 walls | det |
| 21 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 edge | conj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 beds | cop |
| 23 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 walls | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 robes | case |
| 25 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 robes | amod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 beautiful | cc |
| 27 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 soft | conj |
| 28 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 beds | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 extended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | extend | participle · passive | a pool of water | the doorway | into the centre of water; water's edge and the walls and beds parataxis | vn body_motion-49.2-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | past | beds | of soft robes | tree rules |
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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