The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 45
After a while they came within sight of the house, and then landed on the beach and went up to the house.
Who acts: Bluejay · What happens: come, land, go up, sight · To what, where: beach, 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 while | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 while | det |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | within | within | ADP | _ | 7 sight | case |
| 7 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 house | det |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sight | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 landed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 landed | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 landed | advmod |
| 14 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | parataxis |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 beach | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 beach | det |
| 17 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 landed | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 landed | conj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 went | compound:prt |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 house | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 house | det |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Bluejay | while | within sight of the house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | land | past | the beach | then | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on beach=Destination | ||||
| 3 | go up | past | to the house | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | sight | the house | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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