The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 83
The boy tried to get into a canoe too, but Bluejay took hold of him and threw him into the water.
Who acts: boy, Bluejay · What happens: try, get, take, throw, hold · To what, where: canoe, hold, boy, 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 (boy, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 get | mark |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | xcomp |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 canoe | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 canoe | det |
| 8 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | obl |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 get | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 took | cc |
| 12 | Bluejay | Bluejay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 took | nsubj |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tried | parataxis |
| 14 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 hold | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 threw | cc |
| 18 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 took | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 threw | obj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 water | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 water | det |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 threw | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | the boy | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | the boy not said here | a canoe | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into canoe=Destination | ||||
| 3 | take | past | Bluejay | hold of boy | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | ||||
| 4 | throw | past | Bluejay not said here | boy | into the water result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer he=Theme into water=Result | |||
| 5 | hold | boy | 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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