The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 178
After a while birds came flying after them towards the sea—birds with red bills, just as if blood were on their beaks.
Who acts: while birds, blood · What happens: come, fly, be · To what, where: birds, sea
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 (while birds, blood), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 birds | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 birds | det |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 birds | compound |
| 4 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 came | xcomp |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 flying | obl |
| 9 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 11 sea | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sea | det |
| 11 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flying | obl |
| 12 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 birds | punct |
| 13 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 came | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 bills | case |
| 15 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bills | amod |
| 16 | bills | bill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 birds | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 beaks | punct |
| 18 | just | just | ADV | _ | 25 beaks | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 beaks | case |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 beaks | mark |
| 21 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 beaks | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 beaks | cop |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 beaks | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 beaks | nmod:poss |
| 25 | beaks | beak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 birds | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a while birds | birds with red bills and women's beaks | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fly | gerund | a while birds not said here | the sea | after women = woman | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards sea=Destination | |||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | blood | as women's beaks; women = woman nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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