The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 86
For a long time he held on, and cried and cried, but at last he let go and went up to the house.
Who acts: Bluejay · What happens: hold on, cry, let, go, go up · To what, where: last
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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 held | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 held | nsubj |
| 6 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 held | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 cried | cc |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 held | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cried | cc |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cried | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 let | cc |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 last | case |
| 16 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 let | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 let | nsubj |
| 18 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 held | conj |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 let | xcomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 let | conj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 went | compound:prt |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 house | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 house | det |
| 25 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold on | past | Bluejay | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Bluejay not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | Bluejay not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | let | past | Bluejay | last | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go | infinitive | Bluejay not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | go up | past | Bluejay not said here | to the house | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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