The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 199
Often he went out to gather mussels and tried to break them off from the rocks, but he could not do it.
Who acts: Bluejay · What happens: go out, gather, try, break off, not do · To what, where: mussels, 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 (Bluejay), 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 | Often | often | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 gather | mark |
| 6 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | xcomp |
| 7 | mussels | mussel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gather | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 tried | cc |
| 9 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 break | mark |
| 11 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 tried | xcomp |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 break | obj |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 break | compound:prt |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 rocks | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rocks | det |
| 16 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 break | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 do | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 do | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 do | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 do | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 do | advmod |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 do | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | Bluejay | often, out property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | gather | to-infinitive | Bluejay not said here | mussels | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mussel=Theme | ||||
| 3 | try | past | Bluejay not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | break off not said to happen | to-infinitive | Bluejay not said here | Mussels = mussel | from the rocks | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient from rock=Co-Patient | |||
| 5 | not do | could | Bluejay | rock | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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