The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 29
Pretty soon, as they looked, they could see that it was the Magpie in the canoe, and at length he landed and pulled his canoe up on the beach and walked up to the house.
Who acts: Bluejay, canoe, shore · What happens: look, see, be, land, pull, canoe up · To what, where: canoe, Magpie, length, beach
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, canoe, shore), 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 | Pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 see | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 soon | punct |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 looked | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 looked | nsubj |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 see | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 looked | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 see | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 see | aux |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 Magpie | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 Magpie | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 Magpie | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Magpie | det |
| 15 | Magpie | Magpie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 see | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 canoe | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 canoe | det |
| 18 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 see | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 landed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 landed | cc |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 length | case |
| 22 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 landed | obl |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 landed | nsubj |
| 24 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 see | parataxis |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 pulled | cc |
| 26 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 landed | conj |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 canoe | nmod:poss |
| 28 | canoe | canoe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 pulled | ccomp |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 canoe | compound:prt |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 beach | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 beach | det |
| 32 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pulled | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 walked | cc |
| 34 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 landed | conj |
| 35 | up | up | ADP | _ | 34 walked | compound:prt |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 house | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 house | det |
| 38 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 walked | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Bluejay | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | see | could | Bluejay | the canoe | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | is a | past | canoe | the Magpie | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | land | past | shore | length | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | pull | past | shore not said here | the beach | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | canoe up | present | shore not said here | shore nmod:poss | vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | walk up | past | shore not said here | to the house result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to house=Result |
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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