The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 85
He took hold of the side of the canoe, but Bluejay hit his hands to make him let go.
Who acts: Bluejay · What happens: take, hit, make, let, go, hold · To what, where: hold, hands, Bluejay, side
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 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 side | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 side | det |
| 6 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hold | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 canoe | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 canoe | det |
| 9 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 side | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hit | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 hit | cc |
| 12 | Bluejay | Bluejay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 hit | nsubj |
| 13 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hands | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hit | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 make | mark |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 hit | advcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 make | obj |
| 19 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 make | xcomp |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 let | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Bluejay | hold of the side of the canoe | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hit | past | Bluejay | Bluejay's hands | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hand=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | Bluejay not said here | Bluejay | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | Bluejay not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | go | infinitive | Bluejay not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | hold | the side of the canoe | 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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