The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 173
He took hold of a nose ornament, and a person cried, “Let go of my nose ornament, Bluejay.”
Who acts: person · What happens: take, cry, let, go, hold · To what, where: hold, nose ornament · 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), 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 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 ornament | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 ornament | det |
| 6 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ornament | compound |
| 7 | ornament | ornament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hold | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cried | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 person | det |
| 11 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cried | nsubj |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Let | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Let | punct |
| 15 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 cried | ccomp |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 Let | xcomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 ornament | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 ornament | nmod:poss |
| 19 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ornament | compound |
| 20 | ornament | ornament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 go | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Bluejay | punct |
| 22 | Bluejay | Bluejay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 ornament | appos |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 Let | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | person | hold of a nose ornament | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | a person | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | go in a quote | infinitive | of my nose ornament | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of ornament=Initial_Location | |||||
| 5 | hold | a nose ornament | nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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