The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 4
Some days when they found nothing, they dug clams on the flat, but some days they could get no clams, and so they were hungry.
Who acts: Bluejay, days · What happens: find, dig, get, be · To what, where: nothing, clams, flat
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, days), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 days | det |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dug | nsubj |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 found | advmod |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 found | nsubj |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 dug | advcl |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 found | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 dug | nsubj |
| 9 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | clams | clam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dug | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 flat | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 flat | det |
| 13 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dug | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 get | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 get | cc |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 days | det |
| 17 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 get | nsubj |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 get | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 get | aux |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 dug | advcl |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 clams | det |
| 22 | clams | clam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 get | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 hungry | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 hungry | cc |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 hungry | advmod |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 hungry | nsubj |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 hungry | cop |
| 28 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dug | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 dug | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Bluejay | nothing | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 2 | dig | past | some days | clams | the flat | Bluejay nsubj | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent clam=Theme on flat=Location | ||
| 3 | get | could | some days | no clams | Bluejay nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer clam=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | is | past | Bluejay | hungry property | tree rules |
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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