The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 69
He tied it to his leg and put a bandage over it, and said that his leg was broken.
Who acts: Raven · What happens: tie, put, say, break · To what, where: piece, bandage, leg · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 leg | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 leg | nmod:poss |
| 6 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tied | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 put | cc |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tied | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bandage | det |
| 10 | bandage | bandage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obj |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 put | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tied | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 broken | mark |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 leg | nmod:poss |
| 18 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 broken | aux:pass |
| 20 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 said | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie | past | Raven | piece | to Raven's leg | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient to leg=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | put | infinitive | Raven not said here | a bandage | piece | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bandage=Theme over it=Destination | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Raven not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | break | past · passive | Raven's leg | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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