The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 88
After a while they reached the rock where the sea-lions lived, and the hunter went ashore and speared a sea-lion, and it jumped into the water and soon floated there dead.
Who acts: people, sea lions, hunter, rock · What happens: reach, live, go, spear, jump, float · To what, where: rock, sea lion, 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, sea lions, hunter, rock), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 while | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 while | det |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reached | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 reached | nsubj |
| 5 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rock | det |
| 7 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reached | obj |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 lived | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lions | det |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lions | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 sea | punct |
| 12 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 lived | nsubj |
| 13 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rock | acl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hunter | det |
| 17 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reached | parataxis |
| 19 | ashore | ashore | ADV | _ | 18 went | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 speared | cc |
| 21 | speared | spear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 went | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 lion | det |
| 23 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lion | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 sea | punct |
| 25 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 speared | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 jumped | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 jumped | cc |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 jumped | nsubj |
| 29 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reached | parataxis |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 water | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 water | det |
| 32 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 jumped | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 floated | cc |
| 34 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 35 floated | advmod |
| 35 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 jumped | conj |
| 36 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 floated | advmod |
| 37 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 floated | xcomp |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | people | the rock | while | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent rock=Theme | |||
| 2 | live | past | the sea lions | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | past | the hunter | ashore property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | spear | past | the hunter not said here | a sea lion | vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Patient | ||||
| 5 | jump | past | rock | into the water result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into water=Result | ||||
| 6 | float | past | rock not said here | there | dead, soon property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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