The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 172
He took up a coat made of goat wool, and somebody cried out, “Why do you lift my coat, Bluejay?”
Who acts: person, somebody, you · What happens: take up, make, cry out, lift · To what, where: coat · 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 (person, somebody, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 took | compound:prt |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 coat | det |
| 5 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 coat | acl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 wool | case |
| 8 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wool | compound |
| 9 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cried | cc |
| 12 | somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 cried | nsubj |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | parataxis |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 cried | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lift | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 lift | punct |
| 17 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 lift | advmod |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 lift | aux |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 lift | nsubj |
| 20 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 cried | conj |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 coat | nmod:poss |
| 22 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lift | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Bluejay | punct |
| 24 | Bluejay | Bluejay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 coat | appos |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 lift | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | past | person | a coat | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | a coat not said here | of goat wool | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | cry out speech: express | past | somebody | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | lift in a quote | present · do-support | you | my coat | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Theme |
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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