The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 136
The bird came down, and, grasping the piece of meat, flew away.
Who acts: bird · What happens: come down, grasp, fly away · To what, where: piece
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 (bird), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 grasping | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 grasping | cc |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 grasping | punct |
| 8 | grasping | grasp | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 came | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 piece | det |
| 10 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grasping | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 meat | case |
| 12 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 piece | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 flew | punct |
| 14 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 flew | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down | past | the bird | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grasp | gerund | the bird not said here | the piece of meat | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer piece=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | fly away | past | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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