The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 48
Then they dived, and when each came to the top of the water it had a trout in its mouth.
Who acts: Bluejay, each, water · What happens: dive, come, have · To what, where: top, trout, mouth
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, each, 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 dived | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dived | nsubj |
| 3 | dived | dive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 had | cc |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 came | advmod |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 had | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 top | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 top | det |
| 11 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 water | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 water | det |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 top | nmod |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dived | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 trout | det |
| 18 | trout | trout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 mouth | case |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dive | past | Bluejay | then | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | come | past | each | the top of the water | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to top=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | have | past | water | a trout | water's mouth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trout=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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