The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 132
Then she dragged up to the house the one that she had killed and singed it, and when she had finished singeing it she cut it up.
Who acts: seal · What happens: drag up, kill, singe, finish, cut up · To what, where: house, 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), 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 dragged | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dragged | nsubj |
| 3 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 dragged | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dragged | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 one | det |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 house | appos |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 killed | aux |
| 13 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 one | acl:relcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 singed | cc |
| 15 | singed | singe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 killed | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 singed | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 finished | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 finished | cc |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 finished | advmod |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 finished | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 finished | aux |
| 22 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 dragged | conj |
| 23 | singeing | singe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 finished | xcomp |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 singeing | obj |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 cut | nsubj |
| 26 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 finished | advcl |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 cut | obj |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 cut | compound:prt |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dragged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drag up | past | seal | the house | then | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to house=Destination | |||
| 2 | kill | past · perfect · passive | the one | seal nsubj:pass | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | singe | past | house | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||||
| 4 | finish | past · perfect | seal | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | singe | gerund | seal not said here | house | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 6 | cut up | infinitive | seal | house | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |
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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