The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 72
He seized the Raven’s leg and untied it, and found the piece of meat that the Raven had tied to it and burned it.
Who acts: Bluejay · What happens: seize, untie, find, tie, burn · To what, where: leg, piece
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 (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 seized | nsubj |
| 2 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Raven | det |
| 4 | Raven | Raven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 leg | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Raven | case |
| 6 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seized | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 untied | cc |
| 8 | untied | untie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seized | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 untied | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 found | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 found | cc |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seized | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 piece | det |
| 14 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 found | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 meat | case |
| 16 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 piece | nmod |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 tied | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Raven | det |
| 19 | Raven | Raven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 tied | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 tied | aux |
| 21 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 piece | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 tied | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 burned | cc |
| 25 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 found | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 burned | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | Bluejay | the Raven's leg | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme | ||||
| 2 | untie | past | Bluejay not said here | leg | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | find | past | the piece of meat | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Topic | |||||
| 4 | tie | past · perfect · passive | the piece of meat | leg | the Raven nsubj:pass | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to it=Co-Patient | |||
| 5 | burn | past | leg | 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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