The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 111
Then he took a dish and went out and brought it back filled with mud.
Who acts: Beaver · What happens: take, go out, bring back, fill · To what, where: dish
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 dish | det |
| 5 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 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 | 3 took | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 brought | obj |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 brought | advmod |
| 13 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 brought | xcomp |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 mud | case |
| 15 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 filled | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Beaver | a dish | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Theme | |||
| 2 | go out | past | Beaver not said here | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bring back | past | Beaver not said here | dish | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fill | participle | Beaver not said here | with mud | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with mud=Instrument |
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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