The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 19
After a time they started to return to their house, taking with them the kettle with the food that was left.
Who acts: friends · What happens: start, return, take, leave · To what, where: kettle, food
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 (friends), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 started | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 started | nsubj |
| 5 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 return | mark |
| 7 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 started | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 house | nmod:poss |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 return | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 taking | punct |
| 12 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 started | advcl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 taking | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 kettle | det |
| 16 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taking | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 food | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 food | det |
| 19 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taking | obl |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 left | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 left | aux:pass |
| 22 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 food | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | friends = friend | time | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | return | to-infinitive | friends = friend not said here | to friends's house result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result | ||||
| 3 | take | gerund | friends = friend not said here | the kettle | with friends = friend; with the food | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kettle=Theme | |||
| 4 | leave | past · passive | the food | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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