The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 31
Soon Bluejay got up and swept his house, and found one dry salmon egg, which he put in his topknot.
Who acts: Bluejay, one dry salmon egg · What happens: get up, sweep, find, put · To what, where: house, one dry salmon egg, topknot
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, one dry salmon egg), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | Bluejay | Bluejay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 got | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 swept | cc |
| 6 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 house | nmod:poss |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 swept | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 found | cc |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 egg | nummod |
| 13 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 egg | amod |
| 14 | salmon | salmon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 egg | compound |
| 15 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 put | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 put | nsubj:outer |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 put | nsubj |
| 19 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 egg | acl:relcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 topknot | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 topknot | nmod:poss |
| 22 | topknot | topknot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 put | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | Bluejay | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | sweep | past | Bluejay not said here | shore's house | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | find | past | Bluejay not said here | one dry salmon egg | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Topic | ||||
| 4 | put | past | one dry salmon egg | shore's topknot | shore nsubj | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in topknot=Destination |
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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