The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 65
Ten times they tried to dive, and their feathers were all wet and clinging to them, and they were almost dead with cold.
Who acts: children, feathers · What happens: try, dive, be, cling · To what, where: children
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 (children, feathers), 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 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 times | nummod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tried | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tried | nsubj |
| 4 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 dive | mark |
| 6 | dive | dive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tried | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wet | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wet | cc |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 10 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 wet | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 wet | cop |
| 12 | all | all | ADV | _ | 13 wet | advmod |
| 13 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tried | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 clinging | cc |
| 15 | clinging | cling | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 wet | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 clinging | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 dead | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 dead | cc |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 dead | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 dead | cop |
| 22 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 23 dead | advmod |
| 23 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tried | advcl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 cold | case |
| 25 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 dead | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | children = child | time | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | dive not said to happen | to-infinitive | children = child not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | is | past | children's feathers | all, wet property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | cling | gerund | children's feathers not said here | children = child | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to they=Co-Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | children = child | with cold; almost, dead 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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