The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 44
The next morning early they started and paddled away towards the Duck’s house.
Who acts: Bluejay · What happens: start, paddle away · To what, where: house
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 started | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 started | advmod |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 started | nsubj |
| 6 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 paddled | cc |
| 8 | paddled | paddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 started | conj |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 paddled | advmod |
| 10 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Duck | det |
| 12 | Duck | Duck | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 house | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Duck | case |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 paddled | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | Bluejay | morning | early property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | paddle away | past | Bluejay not said here | the Duck's house | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent towards house=Trajectory |
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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