The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 94
The months passed, and one morning the water in the whirling pool was seen to be a little muddy.
Who acts: months · What happens: pass, see, be · To what, where: 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 (months), 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 months | det |
| 2 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seen | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 seen | cc |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 morning | nummod |
| 7 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seen | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 water | det |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 pool | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pool | det |
| 12 | whirling | whirling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pool | compound |
| 13 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 water | nmod |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 seen | aux:pass |
| 15 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 passed | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 muddy | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 muddy | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 little | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 muddy | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | muddy | muddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 seen | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | the months | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | past · passive | the water in the whirling pool | morning | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | a little obl:unmarked; muddy property | 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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