The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 9
Early next morning they put their canoe in the water and paddled away, and when they came near the Magpie’s house they saw him sitting on the roof.
Who acts: Bluejay, shore · What happens: put, paddle away, come, see, sit · To what, where: canoe, water, house, shore, roof
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 (Bluejay, shore), 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 | Early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | advmod |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 put | nsubj |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 canoe | nmod:poss |
| 7 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 paddled | cc |
| 12 | paddled | paddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | conj |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 paddled | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 saw | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 saw | cc |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 came | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 saw | advcl |
| 19 | near | near | ADP | _ | 23 house | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Magpie | det |
| 21 | Magpie | Magpie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 house | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 Magpie | case |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 saw | nsubj |
| 25 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 saw | obj |
| 27 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 saw | xcomp |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 roof | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 roof | det |
| 30 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sitting | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Bluejay | Bluejay's canoe | the water | morning | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent canoe=Theme in water=Destination | ||
| 2 | paddle away | past | Bluejay not said here | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | come | past | Bluejay | the Magpie's house | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near house=Location | ||||
| 4 | see | past | Bluejay | shore | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | sit | gerund | shore not said here | the roof | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on roof=Location |
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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