The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 49
There was a noise of feet running, and Stikuá and her children came running to the beach with all the other women.
Who acts: noise, feet, Stikuá · What happens: be, run, come, noise
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, feet, Stikuá), 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 | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 noise | det |
| 4 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 feet | case |
| 6 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 noise | nmod |
| 7 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 feet | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 came | cc |
| 10 | Stikuá | Stikuá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 came | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 children | cc |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 children | nmod:poss |
| 13 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Stikuá | conj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 15 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 came | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 beach | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 beach | det |
| 18 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 running | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 women | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 women | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 women | det |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 women | amod |
| 23 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 running | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a noise of feet | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run | gerund | feet not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | past | Stikuá and Stikuá's children | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | run | gerund | Stikuá and Stikuá's children not said here | to the beach result; with all other women | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to beach=Result | ||||
| 5 | noise | 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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