The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 140
Towards evening Bluejay awoke, and then the people ate again, and afterwards Bluejay burned what they had left.
Who acts: Bluejay, people · What happens: awake, eat, burn, leave
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 (Bluejay, people), 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 | Towards | toward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 evening | compound |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 awoke | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Bluejay | Bluejay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 awoke | nsubj |
| 4 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ate | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ate | cc |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 ate | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 people | det |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ate | nsubj |
| 10 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 awoke | conj |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 ate | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 burned | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 burned | cc |
| 14 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 16 burned | advmod |
| 15 | Bluejay | Bluejay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 burned | nsubj |
| 16 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 awoke | conj |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 burned | obj |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 left | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 left | aux |
| 20 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 what | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | Bluejay | evening | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | eat | past | the people | then; again | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | burn | past | Bluejay | what obj; afterwards property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=Theme | ||||
| 4 | leave | past · perfect | people | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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