The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 82
Then the people hauled their canoes down to the water and got into them.
Who acts: people · What happens: haul down, get · To what, where: canoes, water
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 (people), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 hauled | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hauled | nsubj |
| 4 | hauled | haul | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 canoes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hauled | obj |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 hauled | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hauled | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 got | cc |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hauled | conj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 got | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hauled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | haul down | past | the people | people's canoes | the water | then | down property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent canoe=Theme to water=Destination | |
| 2 | get | past | the people not said here | into canoes = canoe | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into they=Destination |
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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