The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 89
Then they towed it to the beach and pulled it up and singed it, and cut it up and boiled it.
Who acts: people · What happens: tow, pull up, singe, cut up, boil · To what, where: rock, beach
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 | 3 towed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 towed | nsubj |
| 3 | towed | tow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 towed | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 beach | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 beach | det |
| 7 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 towed | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pulled | cc |
| 9 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 towed | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 pulled | obj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 pulled | compound:prt |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 singed | cc |
| 13 | singed | singe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 pulled | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 singed | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cut | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 cut | cc |
| 17 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 towed | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 cut | obj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 cut | compound:prt |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 boiled | cc |
| 21 | boiled | boil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 towed | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 boiled | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 towed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tow | past | people | rock | the beach | then | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to beach=Destination | ||
| 2 | pull up | past | people not said here | rock | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | singe | past | people not said here | rock | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | cut up | infinitive | people not said here | rock | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | ||||
| 5 | boil | past | people not said here | rock | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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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