The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 197
He often went along the beach looking for food, and was lucky, for sometimes he found a sturgeon; or again he went along the beach looking for food and he found a porpoise.
Who acts: Raven · What happens: go, look, be, find · To what, where: beach, sturgeon, porpoise
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | along | along | ADP | _ | 6 beach | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 beach | det |
| 6 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 food | case |
| 9 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looking | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lucky | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lucky | cc |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 lucky | cop |
| 13 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 went | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 found | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 sometimes | case |
| 16 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 18 found | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 found | nsubj |
| 18 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 lucky | parataxis |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 sturgeon | det |
| 20 | sturgeon | sturgeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 found | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 went | punct |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 went | cc |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 went | advmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 went | nsubj |
| 25 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 found | conj |
| 26 | along | along | ADP | _ | 28 beach | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 beach | det |
| 28 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 went | obl |
| 29 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 went | advcl |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 food | case |
| 31 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 looking | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 found | cc |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 found | nsubj |
| 34 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 went | conj |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 porpoise | det |
| 36 | porpoise | porpoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 found | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Raven | the beach | often property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along beach=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | look | gerund | Raven not said here | for food | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for food=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | lucky property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | find | past | Raven | a sturgeon | sometimes property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sturgeon=Topic | |||
| 5 | go | past | Raven | the beach | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along beach=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | look | gerund | Raven not said here | for food | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for food=Theme | ||||
| 7 | find | past | Raven | a porpoise | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent porpoise=Topic |
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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