The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Bluejay Stories, sentence 2
Their houses stand along the beach just above high-water mark, and behind them the wooded mountains rise sharply.
Who acts: houses, wooded mountains · What happens: stand, wood, rise · To what, where: water mark
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 (houses, wooded mountains), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 houses | nmod:poss |
| 2 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stand | nsubj |
| 3 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | along | along | ADP | _ | 6 beach | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 beach | det |
| 6 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stand | obl |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 mark | advmod |
| 8 | above | above | ADP | _ | 12 mark | case |
| 9 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 water | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 high | punct |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mark | compound |
| 12 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stand | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 rise | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 rise | cc |
| 15 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 rise | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 mountains | det |
| 18 | wooded | wood | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 mountains | amod |
| 19 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 rise | nsubj |
| 20 | rise | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 stand | conj |
| 21 | sharply | sharply | ADV | _ | 20 rise | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | people's houses | water mark | along the beach | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along beach=Location | |||
| 2 | wood | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | rise | present | the wooded mountains | behind people; sharply property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind they=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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