The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 110
After a little while the Beaver went out and brought into the house a bundle of willow twigs, which he put down before them.
Who acts: Beaver, bundle · What happens: go out, bring, put down · 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 (Beaver, bundle), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 little | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 little | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 went | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Beaver | det |
| 6 | Beaver | Beaver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 little | acl |
| 8 | out | out | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 brought | cc |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brought | obl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bundle | det |
| 15 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 house | appos |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 twigs | case |
| 17 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 twigs | compound |
| 18 | twigs | twig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 bundle | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 put | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 put | nsubj:outer |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 put | nsubj |
| 22 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 bundle | conj |
| 23 | down | down | ADP | _ | 22 put | compound:prt |
| 24 | before | before | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 put | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 little | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | the Beaver | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | the Beaver not said here | the house | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into house=Destination | ||||
| 3 | put down | past | a bundle of willow twigs | before twigs = twig | Beaver nsubj | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before they=Destination |
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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