The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 79
The pool in the centre of the lodge was never still; the current coming in from the door whirled slowly around and around.
Who acts: pool, coming · What happens: not be, come in, whirl · To what, where: door
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 (pool, coming), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pool | det |
| 2 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 still | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 centre | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 centre | det |
| 5 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pool | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 lodge | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lodge | det |
| 8 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 centre | nmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 still | cop |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 still | advmod |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 current | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 current | det |
| 14 | current | current | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 still | parataxis |
| 15 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 whirled | csubj |
| 16 | in | in | ADV | _ | 15 coming | advmod |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 door | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 door | det |
| 19 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 coming | obl |
| 20 | whirled | whirl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 current | conj |
| 21 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 20 whirled | advmod |
| 22 | around | around | ADV | _ | 20 whirled | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 around | cc |
| 24 | around | around | ADV | _ | 22 around | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 still | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the pool in the centre of the lodge | still property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come in | gerund | the door | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from door=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | whirl | past | coming | around, slowly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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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