The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 102
When he had finished cooking and it was done, he threw it down before them, and went home to his house.
Who acts: Bear · What happens: finish, do, throw down, go · To what, where: cooking, house
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Bluejay, the Imitator. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bear), 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 | 4 finished | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 finished | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | aux |
| 4 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 threw | advcl |
| 5 | cooking | cooking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 finished | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 done | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 done | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 done | aux:pass |
| 9 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 finished | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 finished | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 threw | nsubj |
| 12 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 threw | obj |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 threw | compound:prt |
| 15 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 threw | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 threw | conj |
| 20 | home | home | ADV | _ | 19 went | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 house | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 house | nmod:poss |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect | Bear | cooking | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector cooking=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | do | past · passive | cooking | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | throw down | past | Bear | cooking | before hands = hand | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme before they=Destination | |||
| 4 | go | past | Bear not said here | Bear's house | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location |
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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