The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 107
Early in the morning they started out, and before very long they reached the Beaver’s house.
Who acts: Bluejay · What happens: start out, reach · To what, where: 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 (Bluejay), 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 | Early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 started | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 started | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 started | nsubj |
| 6 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 started | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 reached | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 reached | cc |
| 10 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 12 long | mark |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 long | advmod |
| 12 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 reached | advcl |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 reached | nsubj |
| 14 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 started | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Beaver | det |
| 16 | Beaver | Beaver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 house | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 Beaver | case |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reached | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start out | past | Bluejay | morning | early property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | reach | past | Bluejay | the Beaver's house | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent house=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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