The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 148
Bluejay took a stick and went down and struck the youngest one on the head.
Who acts: Bluejay · What happens: take, go down, strike · To what, where: stick, 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 (Bluejay), 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 | Bluejay | Bluejay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 stick | det |
| 4 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 went | cc |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 struck | cc |
| 9 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 one | det |
| 11 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 one | amod |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 struck | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 head | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 head | det |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 struck | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Bluejay | a stick | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go down | past | Bluejay not said here | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | strike | past | Bluejay not said here | the youngest one | on the head | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent one=Instrument on head=Patient |
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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