The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 34
Soon the water boiled, and he took the cover off, but there was nothing in the kettle but hot water.
Who acts: shore, nothing · What happens: boil, take off, be · To what, where: water, cover
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 (shore, nothing), 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 | 4 boiled | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 water | det |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 boiled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | boiled | boil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 took | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 took | nsubj |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 boiled | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cover | det |
| 10 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 took | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 was | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 was | cc |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 was | expl |
| 15 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | conj |
| 16 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 was | nsubj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 kettle | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 kettle | det |
| 19 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 nothing | nmod |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 water | cc |
| 21 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 water | amod |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 kettle | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 boiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boil | participle · passive | the water | soon property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take off | past | shore | the cover | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cover=Theme | ||||
| 3 | be | past | nothing in the kettle but hot water | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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