The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 108
At last he went into the house and took his arrows and started walking along the shore.
Who acts: boy · What happens: go, take, start, walk · To what, where: last, arrows, shore
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), 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 | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 went | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 took | cc |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 arrows | nmod:poss |
| 11 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 took | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 started | cc |
| 13 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 14 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 started | xcomp |
| 15 | along | along | ADP | _ | 17 shore | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 shore | det |
| 17 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 walking | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | boy | last | into the house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | take | past | boy not said here | boy's arrows | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | start | past | boy not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | walk | gerund | boy not said here | the shore | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along shore=Trajectory |
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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