The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 14
After they had gone some distance they came to a small island, and saw there some sea-lions, and the hunter speared one, and it jumped out to the water and swam strongly, and then it died and floated on the water.
Who acts: Mussels, hunter, distance · What happens: go, come, see, spear, jump out, swim · To what, where: distance, small island, sea lions, one, water
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 (Mussels, hunter, distance), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 gone | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 came | advcl |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 distance | det |
| 6 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gone | obj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 island | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 island | det |
| 11 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 island | amod |
| 12 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 saw | advmod |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 lions | det |
| 18 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lions | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 sea | punct |
| 20 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 saw | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 speared | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 speared | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hunter | det |
| 24 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 speared | nsubj |
| 25 | speared | spear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | parataxis |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 speared | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 jumped | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 jumped | cc |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 jumped | nsubj |
| 30 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 speared | conj |
| 31 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 jumped | compound:prt |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 water | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 water | det |
| 34 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 jumped | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 swam | cc |
| 36 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 jumped | conj |
| 37 | strongly | strongly | ADV | _ | 36 swam | advmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 died | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 died | cc |
| 40 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 42 died | advmod |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 died | nsubj |
| 42 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | parataxis |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 floated | cc |
| 44 | floated | float | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 died | conj |
| 45 | on | on | ADP | _ | 47 water | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 water | det |
| 47 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 floated | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | Mussels = mussel | some distance | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location distance=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Mussels = mussel | a small island | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to island=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Mussels = mussel not said here | some sea lions | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lion=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | spear | past | the hunter | one | vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | ||||
| 5 | jump out | past | distance | to the water result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to water=Result | ||||
| 6 | swim | past | distance not said here | strongly property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | die | past | distance | then | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 8 | float | participle | distance not said here | the water | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on water=Trajectory |
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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