The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 98
The Bear took his knife and slowly cut the soles off his feet.
Who acts: Bear · What happens: take, cut · To what, where: knife, soles
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Bear | det |
| 2 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 knife | nmod:poss |
| 5 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 cut | cc |
| 7 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 8 cut | advmod |
| 8 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 soles | det |
| 10 | soles | sole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cut | obj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 feet | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 feet | nmod:poss |
| 13 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cut | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Bear | Bear's knife | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cut | infinitive | the Bear not said here | the soles | off Bear's feet; slowly property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent sole=Patient off foot=Co-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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