The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 176
The men looked at the things that were coming, and saw the women often jumping out of the water.
Who acts: men, things, women · What happens: look, come, see, jump out · To what, where: women, 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 (men, things, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 men | det |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 things | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 things | det |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 looked | obl |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 coming | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 coming | aux |
| 9 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 things | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 saw | cc |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 women | det |
| 14 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 saw | obj |
| 15 | often | often | ADV | _ | 16 jumping | advmod |
| 16 | jumping | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 saw | xcomp |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 water | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 water | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 water | det |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 jumping | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the men | at the things | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at thing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past · progressive | the things | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | past | the men not said here | the women | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | jump out | gerund | the women not said here | the water | often property | 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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