The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 41
They hauled it to the shore and pulled it up on land, and then pulled it up away from the beach.
Who acts: lions · What happens: haul, pull up · To what, where: land, shore, beach
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 (lions), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hauled | nsubj |
| 2 | hauled | haul | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hauled | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 shore | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shore | det |
| 6 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hauled | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 pulled | cc |
| 8 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hauled | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 pulled | obj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 pulled | compound:prt |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 land | case |
| 12 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pulled | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pulled | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 pulled | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 pulled | advmod |
| 16 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hauled | parataxis |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 pulled | obj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 pulled | compound:prt |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 pulled | advmod |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 beach | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 beach | det |
| 22 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pulled | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hauled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | haul | past | lions = lion | land | the shore | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to shore=Destination | |||
| 2 | pull up | past | lions = lion not said here | land | land | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | pull up | past | land | the beach | then | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme from beach=Initial_Location |
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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