The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 145
The canoe came to the beach, and the Seal and her children landed and pulled the canoe up on the beach, and then came up to the house.
Who acts: canoe, Seal · What happens: come, land, pull up, come up · To what, where: beach, canoe, house
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 (canoe, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 canoe | det |
| 2 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 beach | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 beach | det |
| 6 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 landed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 landed | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Seal | det |
| 10 | Seal | seal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 landed | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 children | cc |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 children | nmod:poss |
| 13 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Seal | conj |
| 14 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 pulled | cc |
| 16 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 landed | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 canoe | det |
| 18 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pulled | obj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 pulled | compound:prt |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 beach | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 beach | det |
| 22 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pulled | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 came | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 came | cc |
| 25 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 came | advmod |
| 26 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 27 | up | up | ADV | _ | 26 came | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 house | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 house | det |
| 30 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 came | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the canoe | the beach | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to beach=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | land | past | the Seal and seal's children | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pull up | past | the Seal and seal's children not said here | the canoe | the beach | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canoe=Theme | |||
| 4 | come up | past | the canoe not said here | the house | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=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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