The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 12
After a little while the Magpie swept his house, and while he was sweeping it out he found one dry salmon egg.
Who acts: Magpie, shore · What happens: sweep, sweep out, find · To what, where: house, one dry salmon egg
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 (Magpie, shore), 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 | 7 swept | obl |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 swept | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Magpie | det |
| 6 | Magpie | Magpie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 swept | nsubj |
| 7 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 house | nmod:poss |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 swept | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 found | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 found | cc |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 sweeping | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sweeping | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sweeping | aux |
| 15 | sweeping | sweep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 found | advcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sweeping | obj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 sweeping | compound:prt |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 found | nsubj |
| 19 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 swept | conj |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 egg | nummod |
| 21 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 egg | amod |
| 22 | salmon | salmon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 egg | compound |
| 23 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 found | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 swept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sweep | past | the Magpie | shore's house | after a little | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | sweep out | past · progressive | shore | house | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | find | past | shore | one dry salmon egg | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Topic |
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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