The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 131
When they had nearly finished eating, he flew towards them, and he thought, “I wish Bluejay would see me.”
Who acts: lions, boy, Bluejay · What happens: finish, eat, fly, think, wish, see · To what, where: boy · 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 (lions, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 finished | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 finished | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 finished | aux |
| 4 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 5 finished | advmod |
| 5 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 flew | advcl |
| 6 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 finished | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 finished | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 flew | nsubj |
| 9 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 flew | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thought | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 thought | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 thought | nsubj |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 flew | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wish | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 wish | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 wish | nsubj |
| 19 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 thought | ccomp |
| 20 | Bluejay | Bluejay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 see | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 see | aux |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 wish | ccomp |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 see | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 flew | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect | lions = lion | nearly property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | eat | gerund | lions = lion not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fly | past | boy | towards lions = lion | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards they=Destination | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | boy | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | wish in a quote | present | boy | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | see in a quote | would | Bluejay | boy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
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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