The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Bluejay Stories, sentence 6
In the stories told by this race of seafarers, the incidents have to do with the common events of their lives, and the scenes are commonly laid on the water or at the water’s edge.
Who acts: incidents, seafarers · What happens: tell, have, do, lay, race · To what, where: stories, scenes, water · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (incidents, seafarers), 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 | _ | 3 stories | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stories | det |
| 3 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 have | obl |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 stories | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 race | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 race | det |
| 7 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 seafarers | case |
| 9 | seafarers | seafarer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 race | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 stories | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 incidents | det |
| 12 | incidents | incident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 have | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 do | mark |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 have | xcomp |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 events | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 events | det |
| 18 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 events | amod |
| 19 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 do | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 lives | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 lives | nmod:poss |
| 22 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 events | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 laid | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 laid | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 scenes | det |
| 26 | scenes | scene | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 laid | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 laid | aux:pass |
| 28 | commonly | commonly | ADV | _ | 29 laid | advmod |
| 29 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 have | parataxis |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 water | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 water | det |
| 32 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 laid | obl |
| 33 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 38 edge | cc |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 edge | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 water | det |
| 36 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 edge | nmod:poss |
| 37 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 36 water | case |
| 38 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 water | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | participle | the stories not said here | by this race of seafarers | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | have | present | the incidents | the stories | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | the incidents not said here | with the common events of incidents's lives | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | lay | present · passive | the scenes | the water or the water's edge | commonly property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on water=Destination | |||
| 5 | race | seafarers | nom race «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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