The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 95
When they were near the shore, Bluejay called out to his wife, “Come and get your mussels, Stikuá,” and they heard the noise of feet running down to the shore.
Who acts: people, shore, feet · What happens: be, call out, come, get, hear, run down · To what, where: shore, Bluejay, mussels, noise · Speech: someone speaks here
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, shore, feet), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 shore | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 shore | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 shore | cop |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 shore | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shore | det |
| 6 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 called | punct |
| 8 | Bluejay | Bluejay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 called | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 shore | acl |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 called | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 wife | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wife | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 called | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Come | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Come | punct |
| 16 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 called | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 get | cc |
| 18 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 Come | conj |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 mussels | nmod:poss |
| 20 | mussels | mussel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 get | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Stikuá | punct |
| 22 | Stikuá | Stikuá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 mussels | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 shore | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 shore | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 heard | cc |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 heard | nsubj |
| 27 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 shore | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 noise | det |
| 29 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 heard | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 feet | case |
| 31 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 noise | nmod |
| 32 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 feet | acl |
| 33 | down | down | ADV | _ | 32 running | advmod |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 shore | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 shore | det |
| 36 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 running | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 shore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | people | the shore | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call out speech: assert | participle · passive | the shore not said here | Bluejay | to Bluejay's wife | tree rules | |||
| 3 | come in a quote | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | get in a quote | infinitive | your mussels | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mussel=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | hear | past | people | the noise of feet | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | run down | gerund | feet not said here | to the shore result; down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to shore=Result | ||||
| 7 | noise | feet | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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