The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 129
He alit on a tree far off and watched them, looking down on them below.
What happens: watch, look down · To what, where: lions, alit
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 alit | nsubj |
| 2 | alit | alit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 tree | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 alit | nmod |
| 6 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 off | advmod |
| 7 | off | off | ADV | _ | 2 alit | parataxis |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 watched | cc |
| 9 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 off | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 watched | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 looking | punct |
| 12 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 watched | advcl |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 looking | advmod |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 looking | obl |
| 16 | below | below | ADV | _ | 12 looking | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 alit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | lions = lion | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look down | gerund | on lions = lion; below, down property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on they=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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