The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 56
On the third morning they rose early and went to the beach, and the boy also went to the beach, and took hold of the side of the canoe to get in.
Who acts: waves, boy · What happens: rise, go, take, get in, hold · To what, where: beach, hold, side
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 (waves, boy), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 3 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 morning | amod |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rose | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 rose | nsubj |
| 6 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 rose | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rose | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 beach | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 beach | det |
| 12 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 boy | det |
| 16 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | nsubj |
| 17 | also | also | ADV | _ | 18 went | advmod |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rose | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 beach | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 beach | det |
| 21 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 took | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 took | cc |
| 24 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rose | conj |
| 25 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 took | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 side | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 side | det |
| 28 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hold | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 canoe | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 canoe | det |
| 31 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 side | nmod |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 get | mark |
| 33 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 took | csubj |
| 34 | in | in | ADV | _ | 33 get | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | waves = wave | morning | early property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | go | past | waves = wave not said here | the beach | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to beach=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | go | past | the boy | the beach | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to beach=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | take | past | waves = wave not said here | hold of the side of the canoe | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | ||||
| 5 | get in | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 6 | hold | the side of the canoe | nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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