The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 1
At Sea Side lived many people—a big village.
What happens: live · To what, where: many people, Sea Side
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, A Bluejay Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 Side | case |
| 2 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Side | compound |
| 3 | Side | Side | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | obl |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 people | amod |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lived | obj |
| 7 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 village | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 village | det |
| 9 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 village | amod |
| 10 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 people | appos |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | many people | Sea Side | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme people=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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