The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 12
Perhaps there we may find something to eat; even if we kill nothing, we can at least gather mussels.”
Who acts: we · What happens: find, eat, kill · To what, where: something, nothing
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 (we), 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 2 there | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 find | advmod |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 find | nsubj |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 find | aux |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 find | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 eat | mark |
| 8 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 something | acl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 kill | punct |
| 10 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 kill | advmod |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 kill | mark |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 kill | nsubj |
| 13 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 find | conj |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 kill | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 can | punct |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 can | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 find | conj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 least | case |
| 19 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 mussels | nmod |
| 20 | gather | gather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 mussels | compound |
| 21 | mussels | mussel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 can | nsubj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | may | we | something | there | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic | |||
| 2 | eat | to-infinitive | we not said here | something not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | kill a condition, not said to happen | present | we | nothing | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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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