The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 104

He stood there in the water up to his armpits, and tried to get into the canoe, but Bluejay hit his hands and made him let go.

Who acts: boy, Bluejay · What happens: stand up, try, get, hit, make, let · To what, where: water, canoe, hands, boy

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), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 stood	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 water	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
7	up	up	ADP	_	2 stood	compound:prt
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 armpits	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 armpits	nmod:poss
10	armpits	armpit	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stood	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tried	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 tried	cc
13	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 get	mark
15	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 tried	xcomp
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 canoe	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 canoe	det
18	canoe	canoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 get	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hit	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 hit	cc
21	Bluejay	Bluejay	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 hit	nsubj
22	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	parataxis
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 hands	nmod:poss
24	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 hit	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 made	cc
26	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 hit	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 made	obj
28	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 made	xcomp
29	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 let	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand up	past	boy		the water; there	to boy's armpits	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in water=Location
2	try	past	boy not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	boy not said here		the canoe		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into canoe=Destination
4	hit	past	Bluejay	boy's hands			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hand=Co-Theme
5	make	past	Bluejay not said here	boy			tree rules
6	let	infinitive	boy not said here				tree rules
7	go	infinitive	boy not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 104