The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 196
Only the Raven, who had been kind-hearted, had a house to himself.
Who acts: Raven · What happens: be, have · To what, where: house, Raven
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 (Raven), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 Raven | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Raven | det |
| 3 | Raven | Raven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 had | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hearted | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 hearted | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hearted | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 hearted | cop |
| 8 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hearted | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 kind | punct |
| 10 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Raven | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Raven | punct |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 himself | case |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 had | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | the Raven | hearted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the Raven | a house | Raven | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient |
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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