The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 84
When it was cooked he placed the kettle before them, and said to them: “Eat, my friends; you must be hungry.”
Who acts: Bear, stones · What happens: cook, place, say, eat, be · To what, where: flesh, kettle, stones, friends · Speech: someone speaks here
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, stones), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 cooked | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cooked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cooked | aux:pass |
| 4 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 placed | advcl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 placed | nsubj |
| 6 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 kettle | det |
| 8 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 placed | obj |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 placed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 placed | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 Eat | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Eat | punct |
| 18 | Eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 friends | punct |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 friends | nmod:poss |
| 21 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 Eat | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 hungry | punct |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 hungry | nsubj |
| 24 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 hungry | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 hungry | cop |
| 26 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 placed | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 hungry | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 hungry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cook | past · passive | flesh | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | place | past | Bear | the kettle | before stones = stone | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Bear not said here | stones = stone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | eat in a quote | infinitive | my friends | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | must | stones = stone | hungry 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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