The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay Visits the Ghosts, sentence 110
He peeled off two pieces and put them on his shoulder and went home.
Who acts: Bluejay · What happens: peel off, put, go · To what, where: two pieces, pieces, shoulder
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 peeled | nsubj |
| 2 | peeled | peel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 peeled | compound:prt |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 pieces | nummod |
| 5 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 peeled | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 put | cc |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 peeled | conj |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 put | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 shoulder | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 11 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 peeled | conj |
| 14 | home | home | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 peeled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peel off | past | Bluejay | two pieces | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Source | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | Bluejay not said here | pieces = piece | Bluejay's shoulder | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme on shoulder=Destination | |||
| 3 | go | past | Bluejay not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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