The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Bluejay Stories, sentence 1
On the shores of the ocean which washes our northwest coast live many tribes of a hardy, seafaring people.
Who acts: ocean · What happens: wash, live · To what, where: northwest coast, many tribes, shores
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Bluejay Stories. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ocean), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 shores | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shores | det |
| 3 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 live | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 ocean | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ocean | det |
| 6 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shores | nmod |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 washes | nsubj |
| 8 | washes | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ocean | acl:relcl |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 coast | nmod:poss |
| 10 | northwest | northwest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 coast | amod |
| 11 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 washes | obj |
| 12 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tribes | amod |
| 14 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 live | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 hardy | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hardy | det |
| 17 | hardy | hardy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tribes | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 people | punct |
| 19 | seafaring | seafaring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 people | compound |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 tribes | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash | present | the ocean | our northwest coast | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coast=Patient | ||||
| 2 | live | present | many tribes of a hardy and seafaring people | the shores of the ocean | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme tribe=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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