The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 156
Then she singed her daughter, and when she had finished singeing her she cut her up and threw her down before Bluejay and his sister, saying: “You may eat this.”
Who acts: seal, You · What happens: singe, finish, cut up, throw down, say, eat · To what, where: daughter, seal, Ioí, this · 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, You), 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 singed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 singed | nsubj |
| 3 | singed | singe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 singed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 finished | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 finished | cc |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 finished | advmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 finished | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 finished | aux |
| 11 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 singed | conj |
| 12 | singeing | singe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 cut | csubj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 singeing | obj |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cut | nsubj |
| 15 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 singed | parataxis |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cut | obj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 cut | compound:prt |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 threw | cc |
| 19 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 cut | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 threw | obj |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 threw | compound:prt |
| 22 | before | before | ADP | _ | 23 Bluejay | case |
| 23 | Bluejay | Bluejay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 threw | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sister | cc |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 sister | nmod:poss |
| 26 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Bluejay | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 saying | punct |
| 28 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 singed | advcl |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 33 eat | punct |
| 30 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 eat | punct |
| 31 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 eat | nsubj |
| 32 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 eat | aux |
| 33 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 saying | ccomp |
| 34 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 eat | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 eat | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | singe | past | seal | seal's daughter | then | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | |||
| 2 | finish | past · perfect | seal | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | singe | gerund | seal | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||||
| 4 | cut up | past | seal | Ioí | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Product | ||||
| 5 | throw down | past | seal not said here | seal | before Bluejay and Beaver's sister | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent she=Theme before bluejay=Destination | |||
| 6 | say speech: assert | gerund | seal not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | eat in a quote | may | You | this | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=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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