The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 33
He intended to go with them, and as they were pushing off he tried to get into one of the canoes.
Who acts: boy, waves · What happens: intend, go, push off, try, get
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 (boy, waves), 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 | 2 intended | nsubj |
| 2 | intended | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 go | mark |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 intended | xcomp |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 go | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tried | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tried | cc |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 pushing | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pushing | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 pushing | aux |
| 12 | pushing | push | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 tried | advcl |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 pushing | compound:prt |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 tried | nsubj |
| 15 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 intended | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 get | mark |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 tried | xcomp |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 one | case |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 get | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 canoes | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 canoes | det |
| 22 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 one | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 intended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | intend | past | boy | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | boy not said here | with waves = wave | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | push off | past · progressive | waves = wave | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | try | past | boy | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | boy not said here | into one of the canoes | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into one=Destination |
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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