The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 20
The Raven wished to take home some of the meat to give to persons who were hungry, and hid a piece in his mat and carried it to the canoe, but Bluejay ran down and took the meat and threw it into the fire and burned it.
Who acts: Raven, persons, Bluejay · What happens: wish, take, give, be, hide, carry · To what, where: some, persons, piece, mat, canoe, meat
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, persons, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Raven | det |
| 2 | Raven | Raven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wished | nsubj |
| 3 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 take | mark |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wished | xcomp |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 take | advmod |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 take | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 meat | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 meat | det |
| 10 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 some | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 give | mark |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 take | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 persons | case |
| 14 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 give | obl |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 hungry | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 hungry | cop |
| 17 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 persons | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hid | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 hid | cc |
| 20 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wished | parataxis |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 piece | det |
| 22 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hid | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 mat | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 mat | nmod:poss |
| 25 | mat | mat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hid | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 carried | cc |
| 27 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 hid | conj |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 carried | obj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 canoe | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 canoe | det |
| 31 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 carried | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 ran | punct |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 ran | cc |
| 34 | Bluejay | Bluejay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 ran | nsubj |
| 35 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wished | advcl |
| 36 | down | down | ADV | _ | 35 ran | advmod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 took | cc |
| 38 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wished | conj |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 meat | det |
| 40 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 took | obj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 threw | cc |
| 42 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 took | conj |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 threw | obj |
| 44 | into | into | ADP | _ | 46 fire | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 fire | det |
| 46 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 threw | obl |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 burned | cc |
| 48 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 took | conj |
| 49 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 burned | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | the Raven | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Raven not said here | some of the meat | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme | |||
| 3 | give | to-infinitive | the Raven not said here | persons | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to person=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | persons | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | hide | past | a piece | Raven's mat | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent piece=Patient in mat=Location | ||||
| 6 | carry | past | piece | the canoe | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to canoe=Destination | ||||
| 7 | run down | past | Bluejay | down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | take | past | the Raven not said here | the meat | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Theme | ||||
| 9 | throw | past | the Raven not said here | meat | into the fire result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into fire=Result | |||
| 10 | burn | past | the Raven not said here | meat | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=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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