The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 37

Then he heated more stones, put a dry salmon egg in the water, put in the hot stones, and covered the kettle, and soon the water began to boil.

Who acts: shore, water · What happens: heat, put, cover, begin, boil · To what, where: more stones, dry salmon egg, water, hot stones, kettle

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, water), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 heated	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heated	nsubj
3	heated	heat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 stones	amod
5	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 heated	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 put	punct
7	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 heated	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 egg	det
9	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 egg	amod
10	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 egg	compound
11	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 water	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 water	det
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 egg	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 put	punct
16	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 put	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 stones	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 stones	det
19	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 stones	amod
20	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 put	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 covered	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 covered	cc
23	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heated	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 kettle	det
25	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 covered	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 began	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 began	cc
28	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 began	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 water	det
30	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 began	nsubj
31	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heated	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 boil	mark
33	boil	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 began	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heat	past	shore	more stones		then		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stone=Patient
2	put	infinitive	shore not said here	a dry salmon egg	the water			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in water=Destination
3	put	infinitive	shore not said here		the hot stones			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in stone=Destination
4	cover	past	shore not said here	the kettle				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme kettle=Destination
5	begin	past	the water				soon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	boil	to-infinitive	the water not said here					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 37