The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 16
Soon the water was boiling, and when it had boiled a little while he took off the cover, and the kettle was full of boiled salmon eggs.
Who acts: water, shore, kettle · What happens: boil, take off, be · To what, where: water, cover
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 (water, shore, kettle), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 water | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 water | det |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boiling | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 boiling | aux |
| 5 | boiling | boil | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 boiled | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 boiled | cc |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 boiled | advmod |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 boiled | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 boiled | aux |
| 11 | boiled | boil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 boiling | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 little | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 boiled | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 took | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 took | nsubj |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 boiled | advcl |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 took | compound:prt |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 cover | det |
| 19 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 full | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 full | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 kettle | det |
| 23 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 full | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 full | cop |
| 25 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 took | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 eggs | case |
| 27 | boiled | boil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 eggs | amod |
| 28 | salmon | salmon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 eggs | compound |
| 29 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 full | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 boiling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boil | past · progressive | the water | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | boil | past · perfect · passive | water | a little obl:unmarked | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | take off | past | shore | the cover | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cover=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the kettle | of boiled salmon eggs; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | boil | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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