The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 172
Now the women went down to the water’s edge and swam about, and began slowly to jump out of the water.
Who acts: women · What happens: go down, swim, begin, jump out · To what, where: 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 (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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 women | det |
| 3 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 edge | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 water | det |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 edge | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 water | case |
| 10 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 swam | cc |
| 12 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 13 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 swam | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 began | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 began | cc |
| 16 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 17 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 16 began | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 jump | mark |
| 19 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 began | xcomp |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 water | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 water | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 water | det |
| 23 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 jump | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | the women | now | to the water's edge; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | swim | past | the women not said here | about property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | the women not said here | slowly property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | jump out | to-infinitive | the women not said here | the water | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme 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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