The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay Visits the Ghosts, sentence 129
When night came the child sat up, intending to rise to its feet, but it fell over.
Who acts: night, child · What happens: come, sit up, intend, rise, fall over · To what, where: feet
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 (night, child), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 2 night | mark |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 child | det |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | nsubj |
| 6 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | ccomp |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 sat | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 intending | punct |
| 9 | intending | intend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 sat | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 rise | mark |
| 11 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 intending | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 feet | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 feet | nmod:poss |
| 14 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rise | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fell | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 fell | cc |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 fell | nsubj |
| 18 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 19 | over | over | ADV | _ | 18 fell | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | night | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sit up | past | the child | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | intend | gerund | the child not said here | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | rise not said to happen | to-infinitive | the child not said here | child's feet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to foot=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | fall over | past | child | over property | vn occur-48.3 «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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