The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 183
Five times the birds flew around the rock, just as the women had gone around it, and then they flew away out to sea.
Who acts: birds, women · What happens: fly, go, fly away · To what, where: rock
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 (birds, 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 | 5 flew | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 birds | det |
| 4 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 flew | nsubj |
| 5 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | around | around | ADP | _ | 8 rock | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rock | det |
| 8 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flew | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gone | punct |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 gone | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 gone | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 women | det |
| 13 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 gone | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 gone | aux |
| 15 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 flew | conj |
| 16 | around | around | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gone | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 flew | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 flew | cc |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 flew | advmod |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 flew | nsubj |
| 22 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 flew | conj |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 flew | advmod |
| 24 | out | out | ADV | _ | 22 flew | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 sea | case |
| 26 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 flew | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the birds | the rock | time | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent around rock=Location | |||
| 2 | go | past · perfect | the women | around bird | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme around it=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | fly away | past | women = woman | then | to sea result; away, out property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to sea=Result |
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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