The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 164
He fastened the planks on the backs of the women, and said to the women, “Now go to the beach and swim towards the sea, and as you go, swim five times around that rock and then go out to sea.
Who acts: sun, women · What happens: fasten, say, go, swim, go out · To what, where: planks, backs, women, beach, sea, rock · 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, women), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fastened | nsubj |
| 2 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 planks | det |
| 4 | planks | plank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fastened | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 backs | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 backs | det |
| 7 | backs | back | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 planks | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 women | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 women | det |
| 10 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 backs | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fastened | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 women | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 women | det |
| 16 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 said | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 go | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 go | punct |
| 19 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 go | advmod |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 beach | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 beach | det |
| 23 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 go | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 swim | cc |
| 25 | swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 go | conj |
| 26 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 28 sea | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sea | det |
| 28 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 swim | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 swim | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 swim | cc |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 go | mark |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 go | nsubj |
| 33 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 swim | advcl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 go | punct |
| 35 | swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 fastened | parataxis |
| 36 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 times | nummod |
| 37 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 swim | obl:unmarked |
| 38 | around | around | ADP | _ | 40 rock | case |
| 39 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 40 rock | det |
| 40 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 swim | obl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 go | cc |
| 42 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 43 go | advmod |
| 43 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 swim | conj |
| 44 | out | out | ADV | _ | 43 go | advmod |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 sea | case |
| 46 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 go | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fasten | past | sun | the planks | the backs of the women | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | sun not said here | the women | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to woman=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | the beach | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to beach=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | swim in a quote | present | the sea | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards sea=Destination | |||||
| 5 | go in a quote | present | the women = woman | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | swim in a quote | present | that rock | time | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around rock=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | go out in a quote | infinitive | then | to sea; out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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