The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Bluejay Stories, sentence 10
In somewhat different form, the Bluejay Stories, in the original tongue, may be found in the Chinook Texts, collected by that eminent ethnologist, Dr. Franz Boas, whose studies of American tribes have yielded such important and valuable results.
Who acts: studies · What happens: find, collect, yield, study · To what, where: Franz, different form, such important results, American tribes
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 (studies), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 form | case |
| 2 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 3 different | advmod |
| 3 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 form | amod |
| 4 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 found | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Stories | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Stories | det |
| 7 | Bluejay | Bluejay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Stories | compound |
| 8 | Stories | Story | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 form | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tongue | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 tongue | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tongue | det |
| 12 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tongue | amod |
| 13 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Stories | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 form | punct |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 found | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 found | aux:pass |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Texts | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Texts | det |
| 20 | Chinook | Chinook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Texts | compound |
| 21 | Texts | Text | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 found | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 collected | punct |
| 23 | collected | collect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 found | conj |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 ethnologist | case |
| 25 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 ethnologist | det |
| 26 | eminent | eminent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 ethnologist | amod |
| 27 | ethnologist | ethnologist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 collected | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Franz | punct |
| 29 | Dr. | Dr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Franz | nmod:desc |
| 30 | Franz | Franz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 found | obl |
| 31 | Boas | Boas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Franz | flat |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 studies | punct |
| 33 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 34 studies | nmod:poss |
| 34 | studies | study | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 yielded | nsubj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 tribes | case |
| 36 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 tribes | amod |
| 37 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 studies | nmod |
| 38 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 yielded | aux |
| 39 | yielded | yield | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 Franz | acl:relcl |
| 40 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 results | amod |
| 41 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 results | amod |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 valuable | cc |
| 43 | valuable | valuable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 important | conj |
| 44 | results | result | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 yielded | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | may · passive | Franz Dr. | different form the Bluejay Stories and the original tongue | in the Chinook Texts | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF» | |||
| 2 | collect | participle | by that eminent ethnologist | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | yield | present · perfect | studies of American tribes | such important results | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | study | American tribes | nom study «act 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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