The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 2
Every morning they went out to walk along the beach, to see what the tide had washed up during the night that was good to eat.
Who acts: Bluejay, night · What happens: go out, walk, see, wash up, be, eat · To what, where: beach, tide
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 (Bluejay, night), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 morning | det |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 walk | mark |
| 7 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | xcomp |
| 8 | along | along | ADP | _ | 10 beach | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 beach | det |
| 10 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 walk | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 see | mark |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 walk | conj |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 washed | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tide | det |
| 16 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 washed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 washed | aux |
| 18 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 see | parataxis |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 washed | compound:prt |
| 20 | during | during | ADP | _ | 22 night | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 night | det |
| 22 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 washed | obl |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 good | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 good | cop |
| 25 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 night | acl:relcl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 eat | mark |
| 27 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 good | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | Bluejay | morning | out property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | walk | to-infinitive | Bluejay not said here | the beach | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along beach=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | Bluejay not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | wash up | past · perfect · passive | the tide | night | what obl | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 5 | is | past | the night | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | eat | to-infinitive | the night not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «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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