The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 131

She said to the others: “Dive down,” and they did so, and when they came to the surface of the water there were five of them.

Who acts: seal, children · What happens: say, dive down, do, come · To what, where: others, surface · 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 (seal, children), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 others	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 others	det
5	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 said	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Dive	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 Dive	punct
8	Dive	dive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
9	down	down	ADV	_	8 Dive	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Dive	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 Dive	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 did	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 did	nsubj
14	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
15	so	so	ADV	_	14 did	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 came	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 came	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 came	nsubj
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 surface	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 surface	det
23	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 water	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 water	det
26	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 surface	nmod
27	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 were	expl
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 water	acl:relcl
29	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 were	nsubj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 five	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	seal	the others			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to other=Recipient clause=Topic
2	dive down in a quote	infinitive				down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	do	past	children = child				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come	past	children = child		the surface of the water		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to surface=Initial_Location

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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The tree

Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 131