The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 64
They pulled it in to the shore and up on the beach, and then they hauled it up above the beach and singed and cut it up and boiled it there.
Who acts: lions · What happens: pull in, haul up, singe, cut up, boil · To what, where: rock, 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 pulled | nsubj |
| 2 | pulled | pull | 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 pulled | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 2 pulled | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 shore | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shore | det |
| 7 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pulled | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 beach | cc |
| 9 | up | up | ADV | _ | 12 beach | advmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 beach | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 beach | det |
| 12 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shore | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hauled | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hauled | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 hauled | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hauled | nsubj |
| 17 | hauled | haul | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pulled | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hauled | obj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 hauled | compound:prt |
| 20 | above | above | ADP | _ | 22 beach | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 beach | det |
| 22 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hauled | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 singed | cc |
| 24 | singed | singe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pulled | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 cut | cc |
| 26 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pulled | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 cut | obj |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 cut | compound:prt |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 boiled | cc |
| 30 | boiled | boil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 cut | conj |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 boiled | obj |
| 32 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 boiled | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull in | past | lions = lion | rock | the shore and the beach | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to shore=Destination | |||
| 2 | haul up | past | lions = lion | rock | the beach | then | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||
| 3 | singe | past | lions = lion not said here | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | cut up | past | lions = lion not said here | rock | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | ||||
| 5 | boil | past | lions = lion not said here | rock | there | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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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