The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Bluejay Stories, sentence 5
Or, if for a while all these fail, there are flat-fish on the shoals, clams in the mud flats, and mussels clinging to the rocks.
Who acts: mussels · What happens: be, cling · To what, where: flat fish, shoals
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 (mussels), 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 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 fish | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Or | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 are | mark |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 while | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 while | det |
| 6 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 are | obl |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 fail | det:predet |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 fail | det |
| 9 | fail | fail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 while | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 while | punct |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 are | expl |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 fish | cop |
| 13 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fish | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 flat | punct |
| 15 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 shoals | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 shoals | det |
| 18 | shoals | shoal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fish | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 clams | punct |
| 20 | clams | clam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 shoals | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 flats | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 flats | det |
| 23 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 flats | compound |
| 24 | flats | flat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 clams | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 mussels | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 mussels | cc |
| 27 | mussels | mussel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 shoals | conj |
| 28 | clinging | cling | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 mussels | acl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 rocks | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 rocks | det |
| 31 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 clinging | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 fish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | flat fish | the shoals and clams in the mud flats and mussels | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cling | gerund | mussels not said here | to the rocks | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to rock=Co-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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