The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 130
He saw that they were cooking, and when the meat was done he saw them eating.
Who acts: boy, lions · What happens: see, cook, do, eat · To what, where: meat, lions · Speech: someone speaks here
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, lions), 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 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 cooking | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cooking | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cooking | aux |
| 6 | cooking | cook | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 saw | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 done | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 meat | det |
| 11 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 done | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 done | aux:pass |
| 13 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 saw | advcl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | obj |
| 17 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 saw | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | boy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | cook | past · progressive | lions = lion | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | do | past · passive | the meat | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | see | past | boy | lions = lion | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | eat | gerund | lions = lion not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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