The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 128
After they had been sitting a while in her house, the Seal said to her children: “Go to the beach and lie down there.”
Who acts: children, Seal · What happens: sit, say, go, lie down · To what, where: house, children, beach · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (children, Seal), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 5 sitting | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sitting | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sitting | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 sitting | aux |
| 5 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 said | advcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 while | det |
| 7 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sitting | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 house | nmod:poss |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sitting | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sitting | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Seal | det |
| 13 | Seal | seal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 children | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 children | nmod:poss |
| 17 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 said | obl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 Go | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Go | punct |
| 20 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 beach | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 beach | det |
| 23 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Go | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 lie | cc |
| 25 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 Go | conj |
| 26 | down | down | ADV | _ | 25 lie | advmod |
| 27 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 lie | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 Go | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · perfect · progressive | children = child | seal's house | while | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in house=Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Seal | seal's children | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to child=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | the beach | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to beach=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | lie down in a quote | infinitive | there | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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