The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 66
They came up to the house shivering, and not bringing anything with them.
Who acts: children · What happens: come up, not bring · To what, where: house shivering, anything
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), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 shivering | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shivering | det |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shivering | compound |
| 7 | shivering | shivering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bringing | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bringing | cc |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 bringing | advmod |
| 11 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 came | advcl |
| 12 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 bringing | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 anything | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | children = child | the house shivering | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to shivering=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | not bring | gerund | children = child not said here | anything | with children = child | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent anything=Theme |
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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