The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 44
Then, when what they were cooking was ready, they ate plenty.
Who acts: lions · What happens: be, eat · To what, where: plenty
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 ready | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 ready | advmod |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 ready | nsubj |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ready | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ready | cop |
| 7 | cooking | cooking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ready | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ready | cop |
| 9 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ate | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ate | nsubj |
| 12 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ready | conj |
| 13 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ate | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | then | what nsubj; lions = lion nsubj; cooking nsubj; ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat | past | lions = lion | plenty | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient |
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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