The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 92
Pretty soon the Bear paddled up to the beach and landed, and came up to the house, and they all sat down.
Who acts: Bear, Bluejay · What happens: paddle up, land, come up, sit down · To what, where: beach, house
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, Bluejay), 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 | Pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 paddled | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Bear | det |
| 4 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 paddled | nsubj |
| 5 | paddled | paddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 paddled | compound:prt |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 beach | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 beach | det |
| 9 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 paddled | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 landed | cc |
| 11 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 paddled | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 came | cc |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 paddled | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 house | det |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sat | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 sat | cc |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 sat | nsubj |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 sat | advmod |
| 23 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 paddled | conj |
| 24 | down | down | ADP | _ | 23 sat | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 paddled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paddle up | past | the Bear | the beach | soon property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to beach=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | land | past | the Bear not said here | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come up | past | the Bear not said here | the house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | sit down | past | Bluejay | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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