The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 160
If a wall plank was wide, he split it.
Who acts: wall plank, sun · What happens: be, split · To what, where: plank
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 (wall plank, sun), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 wide | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 plank | det |
| 3 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plank | compound |
| 4 | plank | plank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wide | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wide | cop |
| 6 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 split | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wide | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 split | nsubj |
| 9 | split | split | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 split | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 split | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | a wall plank | wide property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | split | past | sun | plank | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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