The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 102
The boy tried to get into the canoe, but Bluejay threw him into the water, and they pushed off.
Who acts: boy, Bluejay, canoes · What happens: try, get, throw, push off · To what, where: canoe, boy, water
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: who acts (boy, Bluejay, canoes), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 get | mark |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | xcomp |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 canoe | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 canoe | det |
| 8 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 threw | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 threw | cc |
| 11 | Bluejay | Bluejay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 threw | nsubj |
| 12 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tried | parataxis |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 threw | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 water | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 water | det |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 threw | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 pushed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 pushed | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 pushed | nsubj |
| 20 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 threw | conj |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 pushed | compound:prt |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | the boy | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | the boy not said here | the canoe | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into canoe=Destination | ||||
| 3 | throw | past | Bluejay | boy | into the water result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer he=Theme into water=Result | |||
| 4 | push off | past | canoes = canoe | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=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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