The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 130
Then the Seal took a stick and went down there, too, and when she reached her children she struck the youngest one on the head and it lay there.
Who acts: Seal, stick · What happens: take, go down, reach, strike, lie · To what, where: stick, children, youngest one
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 (Seal, stick), 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 | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Seal | det |
| 3 | Seal | Seal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 stick | det |
| 6 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 went | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 too | punct |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 struck | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 struck | cc |
| 15 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 17 reached | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 reached | nsubj |
| 17 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 struck | advcl |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 children | nmod:poss |
| 19 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 reached | obj |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 struck | nsubj |
| 21 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 one | det |
| 23 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 one | amod |
| 24 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 struck | obj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 head | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 head | det |
| 27 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 struck | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 lay | cc |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 lay | nsubj |
| 30 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 struck | conj |
| 31 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 lay | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Seal | a stick | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme | |||
| 2 | go down | past | the Seal not said here | there | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 3 | reach | past | seal | seal's children | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent child=Theme | ||||
| 4 | strike | past | seal | the youngest one | on the head | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent one=Instrument on head=Patient | |||
| 5 | lie | past | stick | there | 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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