The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay Visits the Ghosts, sentence 126
One day he went into a house in the village and took a child’s skull and put it on the bones of a grown-up person.
Who acts: Bluejay · What happens: go, take, put, grow up · To what, where: house, skull, child, bones
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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 village | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 village | det |
| 10 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 took | cc |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 child | det |
| 14 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 skull | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 child | case |
| 16 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 put | cc |
| 18 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 took | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 put | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 bones | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bones | det |
| 22 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 put | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 person | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 person | det |
| 25 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 person | amod |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 up | punct |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 grown | compound:prt |
| 28 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bones | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Bluejay | a house | day | in the village | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | take | past | Bluejay not said here | a child's skull | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skull=Theme | ||||
| 3 | put | infinitive | Bluejay not said here | child | the bones of a grown person | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on bone=Destination | |||
| 4 | grow up | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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