The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 2
Their houses were on the bank, and, below, the wide beach sloped down to the salt water.
Who acts: houses, wide beach · What happens: be, slope down · To what, where: bank
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 (houses, wide beach), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 houses | nmod:poss |
| 2 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bank | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bank | cop |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 bank | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bank | det |
| 6 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sloped | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sloped | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sloped | punct |
| 10 | below | below | ADV | _ | 15 sloped | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 below | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 beach | det |
| 13 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 beach | amod |
| 14 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sloped | nsubj |
| 15 | sloped | slope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bank | conj |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 sloped | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 water | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 water | det |
| 19 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 water | compound |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sloped | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | people's houses | the bank | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | slope down | past | the wide beach | to the salt water; below, down property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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