The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 83
Then he cut the flesh that he had taken from his feet and from his thigh into small pieces and put it in the kettle, and put the hot stones in the kettle and boiled it.
Who acts: Bear · What happens: cut, take, put, boil · To what, where: flesh, feet, kettle, hot stones
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 (Bear), 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 cut | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cut | nsubj |
| 3 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 flesh | det |
| 5 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cut | obj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 taken | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 taken | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 taken | aux |
| 9 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 cut | advcl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 feet | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 feet | nmod:poss |
| 12 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 taken | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 thigh | cc |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 thigh | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 thigh | nmod:poss |
| 16 | thigh | thigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 feet | conj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 pieces | case |
| 18 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 pieces | amod |
| 19 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 taken | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 put | cc |
| 21 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 taken | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 put | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 kettle | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 kettle | det |
| 25 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 put | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 put | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 put | cc |
| 28 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 cut | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 stones | det |
| 30 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 stones | amod |
| 31 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 put | obj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 kettle | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 kettle | det |
| 34 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 put | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 boiled | cc |
| 36 | boiled | boil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cut | conj |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 boiled | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | past | Bear | the flesh | then | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=Product | |||
| 2 | take | past · perfect | Bear | Bear's feet and Bear's thigh | into small pieces | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into piece=Destination | |||
| 3 | put | infinitive | Bear not said here | flesh | the kettle | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in kettle=Destination | |||
| 4 | put | infinitive | Bear not said here | the hot stones | the kettle | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stone=Theme in kettle=Destination | |||
| 5 | boil | past | Bear not said here | flesh | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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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