The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay Visits the Ghosts, sentence 105
At last he came to a big log, thrown up on the beach—a big log with thick bark—and many people were at work peeling off that bark.
Who acts: Bluejay, many people, work · What happens: come, throw up, be, peel off · To what, where: last, big log, beach, work, bark
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: who acts (Bluejay, many people, work), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 came | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 log | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 log | det |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 log | amod |
| 8 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thrown | punct |
| 10 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 log | acl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 thrown | compound:prt |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 beach | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 beach | det |
| 14 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thrown | obl |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 log | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 log | det |
| 17 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 log | amod |
| 18 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 log | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 bark | case |
| 20 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bark | amod |
| 21 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 log | nmod |
| 22 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 work | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 work | cc |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 people | amod |
| 25 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 work | nsubj |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 work | cop |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 work | case |
| 28 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 29 | peeling | peel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 work | acl |
| 30 | off | off | ADP | _ | 32 bark | case |
| 31 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 bark | det |
| 32 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 peeling | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Bluejay | last | to a big log and a big log with thick bark | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to log=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | throw up | participle | a big log and a big log with thick bark not said here | the beach | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on beach=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is | past | many people | work | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | peel off | gerund | work not said here | that bark | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bark=Source |
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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