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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 61

Pretty soon the Duck, with her five children, reached the beach, and after they had pulled the canoe out of the water, they went up to the house.

Who acts: Duck, children · What happens: reach, pull, go up · To what, where: beach, children, water

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 (Duck, children), 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

advmodadvmoddetnsubjpunctcasenmod:possnummodconjpunctdetobjpunctccmarknsubj:passauxconjdetobjcasecasedetoblpunctnsubjconjcompound:prtcasedetoblpunctrootPrettyADVsoonADVtheDETDuckPROPN,PUNCTwithADPherPRONfiveNUMchildrenNOUN,PUNCTreachedVERBtheDETbeachNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJafterSCONJtheyPRONhadAUXpulledVERBtheDETcanoeNOUNoutADPofADPtheDETwaterNOUN,PUNCTtheyPRONwentVERBupADPtoADPtheDEThouseNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1PrettyprettyADV_2 soonadvmod
2soonsoonADVDegree=Pos11 reachedadvmod
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 Duckdet
4DuckDuckPROPNNumber=Sing11 reachednsubj
5,,PUNCT_9 childrenpunct
6withwithADP_9 childrencase
7herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs9 childrennmod:poss
8fivefiveNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card9 childrennummod
9childrenchildNOUNNumber=Plur4 Duckconj
10,,PUNCT_11 reachedpunct
11reachedreachVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 beachdet
13beachbeachNOUNNumber=Sing11 reachedobj
14,,PUNCT_19 pulledpunct
15andandCCONJ_19 pulledcc
16afterafterSCONJ_19 pulledmark
17theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs19 pullednsubj:pass
18hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 pulledaux
19pulledpullVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass11 reachedconj
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 canoedet
21canoecanoeNOUNNumber=Sing19 pulledobj
22outoutADP_25 watercase
23ofofADP_25 watercase
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 waterdet
25waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing19 pulledobl
26,,PUNCT_28 wentpunct
27theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs28 wentnsubj
28wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 reachedconj
29upupADP_28 wentcompound:prt
30totoADP_32 housecase
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 housedet
32househouseNOUNNumber=Sing28 wentobl
33..PUNCT_11 reachedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1reachpastthe Duck and sister's five childrenthe beachsoon propertyvn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent beach=Theme
2pullpast · perfect · passivechildren = childthe waterthe canoe objvn slide-11.2 «NP V NP.destination PP.initial_location»: subject=Destination canoe=Theme out water=Initial_Location
3go uppastchildren = childto the housevn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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