The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 156
Then he put down a plank on the ground and took a piece of meat from under his blanket, and said to them, “All your husbands eat a great deal of this meat every day.”
Who acts: sun, husbands · What happens: put down, take, say, eat, deal · To what, where: plank, ground, piece, blanket, children, great deal · 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 (sun, husbands), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 put | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 put | compound:prt |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 plank | det |
| 6 | plank | plank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 ground | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ground | det |
| 9 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 took | cc |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 piece | det |
| 13 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 meat | case |
| 15 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 piece | nmod |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 blanket | case |
| 17 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 blanket | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 blanket | nmod:poss |
| 19 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 said | cc |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 said | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 eat | punct |
| 26 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 eat | punct |
| 27 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 husbands | det:predet |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 husbands | nmod:poss |
| 29 | husbands | husband | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 eat | nsubj |
| 30 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 said | ccomp |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 deal | det |
| 32 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 deal | amod |
| 33 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 eat | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 meat | case |
| 35 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 meat | det |
| 36 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 deal | nmod |
| 37 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 day | det |
| 38 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 eat | obl:unmarked |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put down | past | sun | a plank | the ground | then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent plank=Theme on ground=Destination | ||
| 2 | take | past | sun not said here | a piece of meat | sun's blanket | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent piece=Theme from blanket=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | sun not said here | children = child | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | eat in a quote | present | your husbands | a great deal of this meat | day | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Patient | |||
| 5 | deal in a quote | this meat | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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