The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 173
Five times they swam backward and forward before the village; then they went seaward, swimming very fast.
Who acts: women · What happens: swim, go · To what, where: village, seaward
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 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 times | nummod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 swam | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 swam | nsubj |
| 4 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | backward | backward | ADV | _ | 4 swam | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 forward | cc |
| 7 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 5 backward | conj |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 village | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 village | det |
| 10 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swam | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 went | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 swam | conj |
| 15 | seaward | seaward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 swimming | punct |
| 17 | swimming | swim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 went | advcl |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 fast | advmod |
| 19 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 swimming | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 swam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | past | women = woman | the village | time | backward property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before village=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | go | past | women = woman | seaward | then | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location seaward=Theme | |||
| 3 | swim | gerund | women = woman not said here | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «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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