The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 176
Then he began to look under the bed and all through the house for persons, and again they heard many people laughing.
Who acts: person, beds, many people · What happens: begin, look, hear, laugh · To what, where: bed, many people
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, beds, many people), 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 began | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 look | mark |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 bed | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bed | det |
| 8 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 look | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 house | cc |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 13 house | advmod |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bed | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 persons | case |
| 15 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 look | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 heard | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 heard | cc |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 heard | advmod |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 heard | nsubj |
| 20 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | conj |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 people | amod |
| 22 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 heard | obj |
| 23 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 people | acl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | person | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | person not said here | the bed and the house | for persons | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent under bed=Location for person=Theme | |||
| 3 | hear | past | beds = bed | many people | again | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | laugh | gerund | many people not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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