The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 24

There was a noise of many feet as Stikuá and the other women came running down to get their mussels, and carried them up to the houses.

Who acts: noise, Stikuá, many feet · What happens: be, come, run down, get, carry up, noise · To what, where: mussels, houses

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 (noise, Stikuá, many feet), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 came	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 noise	det
4	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 feet	case
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 feet	amod
7	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 noise	nmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 came	mark
9	Stikuá	Stikuá	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 came	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 women	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 women	det
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 women	amod
13	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 Stikuá	conj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 came	advcl
16	down	down	ADV	_	15 running	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 get	mark
18	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 running	advcl
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mussels	nmod:poss
20	mussels	mussel	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 get	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 carried	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 carried	cc
23	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 came	conj
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 carried	obj
25	up	up	ADP	_	23 carried	compound:prt
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 houses	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 houses	det
28	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 carried	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a noise of many feet		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	Stikuá and the other women				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	run down	gerund	Stikuá and the other women not said here			down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	get	to-infinitive	Stikuá and the other women not said here	people's mussels			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mussel=Stimulus
5	carry up	past	Stikuá and the other women not said here	Mussels = mussel	the houses		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to house=Destination
6	noise		many feet				nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 24