The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 122
Then Bluejay ran down to the beach and got some mud, which he put before the Beaver.
Who acts: Bluejay, mud · What happens: run down, get, put · To what, where: mud
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, mud), 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 ran | advmod |
| 2 | Bluejay | Bluejay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 ran | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 beach | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 beach | det |
| 7 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 got | cc |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 mud | det |
| 11 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 put | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 put | nsubj:outer |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 put | nsubj |
| 15 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 mud | acl:relcl |
| 16 | before | before | ADP | _ | 18 Beaver | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Beaver | det |
| 18 | Beaver | Beaver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 put | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run down | past | Bluejay | then | to the beach result; down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to beach=Result | |||
| 2 | get | past | Bluejay not said here | some mud | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mud=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | put | past | some mud | before the Beaver | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before beaver=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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