The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 161
It was full of food, and on the beds there were lying ornaments, clothing, coats, blankets of deer skin, of mountain-goat wool, and of ground-hog skin.
Who acts: home · What happens: be, lie · To what, where: hog skin, beds
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 (home), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 full | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 full | cop |
| 3 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 food | case |
| 5 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 full | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 skin | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 skin | cc |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 beds | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 beds | det |
| 10 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 skin | obl |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 were | expl |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 skin | cop |
| 13 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 ornaments | amod |
| 14 | ornaments | ornament | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 were | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 clothing | punct |
| 16 | clothing | clothing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ornaments | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 coats | punct |
| 18 | coats | coat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ornaments | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 blankets | punct |
| 20 | blankets | blanket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ornaments | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 skin | case |
| 22 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 skin | compound |
| 23 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 blankets | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 wool | punct |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 wool | case |
| 26 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 goat | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 mountain | punct |
| 28 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 wool | compound |
| 29 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ornaments | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 skin | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 skin | cc |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 hog | case |
| 33 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 hog | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 ground | punct |
| 35 | hog | hog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 skin | compound |
| 36 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 full | parataxis |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | home | of food; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lie | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | hog skin | the beds | tree rules |
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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