The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 46
He tied it in his hair, intending to hide it, but Bluejay took it out and threw it into the fire and burned it.
Who acts: Raven, Bluejay · What happens: tie, intend, hide, take out, throw, burn · To what, where: piece, hair, fire
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, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tied | nsubj |
| 2 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tied | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 hair | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hair | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tied | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 intending | punct |
| 8 | intending | intend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 tied | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 hide | mark |
| 10 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 intending | xcomp |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 hide | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 took | cc |
| 14 | Bluejay | Bluejay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 took | nsubj |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tied | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 took | obj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 took | compound:prt |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 threw | cc |
| 19 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 took | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 threw | obj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 fire | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fire | det |
| 23 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 threw | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 burned | cc |
| 25 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 threw | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 burned | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie | past | Raven | piece | Raven's hair | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 2 | intend | gerund | Raven not said here | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hide not said to happen | to-infinitive | Raven not said here | piece | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | take out | past | Bluejay | piece | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | throw | past | Bluejay not said here | piece | into the fire result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into fire=Result | |||
| 6 | burn | past | Bluejay not said here | piece | 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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