The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 91
They ate for a long time and ate half of it, and then they were satisfied.
Who acts: people · What happens: eat, be · To what, where: half
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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ate | nsubj |
| 2 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ate | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ate | cc |
| 8 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ate | conj |
| 9 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 8 ate | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 half | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 satisfied | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 satisfied | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 satisfied | advmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 satisfied | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 satisfied | cop |
| 17 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ate | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | people | time | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | eat | past | people not said here | half of rock | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | people | then | satisfied property | tree rules |
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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