The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay Visits the Ghosts, sentence 1
In a certain village there lived Ioí and her younger brother, Bluejay.
What happens: live · To what, where: Ioí, certain village
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Bluejay Visits the Ghosts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 village | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 village | det |
| 3 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 village | amod |
| 4 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 lived | advmod |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Ioí | Ioí | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 brother | cc |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 brother | nmod:poss |
| 10 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 brother | amod |
| 11 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Ioí | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Bluejay | punct |
| 13 | Bluejay | Bluejay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Ioí | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Ioí and her younger brother and Bluejay | a certain village; there | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme ioí=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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