The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 15

He filled a basket-work kettle with water, put the salmon egg in the water, then put the stones in the water, one after another, and covered the kettle.

Who acts: shore · What happens: fill, put, cover · To what, where: work kettle, salmon egg, water, stones, kettle

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 (shore), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 filled	nsubj
2	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 kettle	det
4	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 work	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 basket	punct
6	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kettle	compound
7	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 filled	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 water	case
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kettle	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 put	punct
11	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 filled	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 egg	det
13	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 egg	compound
14	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 put	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 water	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 water	det
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 egg	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 put	punct
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 put	advmod
20	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 put	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 stones	det
22	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 put	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 water	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 water	det
25	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 put	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 one	punct
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 water	conj
28	after	after	ADP	_	29 another	case
29	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	27 one	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 covered	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 covered	cc
32	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 filled	parataxis
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 kettle	det
34	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 covered	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 filled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	past	shore	a work kettle			with water	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent kettle=Patient with water=Instrument
2	put	infinitive	shore not said here	the salmon egg	the water			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in water=Destination
3	put	infinitive	shore not said here	the stones	the water	then		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stone=Theme in water=Destination
4	cover	past		the kettle				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme kettle=Destination

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 Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 15