The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay Visits the Ghosts, sentence 158
They were playing games—dice and the ring game—and dancing—tum, tum, tum, tum—and singing.
Who acts: people · What happens: play, dance, sing · To what, where: games, tum
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 (people), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 playing | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 playing | aux |
| 3 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 playing | obj |
| 5 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 dice | punct |
| 6 | dice | die | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 games | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 game | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 game | det |
| 9 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 game | compound |
| 10 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 games | conj |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 dancing | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 dancing | cc |
| 13 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 playing | parataxis |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 tum | punct |
| 15 | tum | tum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dancing | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tum | punct |
| 17 | tum | tum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tum | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tum | punct |
| 19 | tum | tum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tum | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 tum | punct |
| 21 | tum | tum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tum | conj |
| 22 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 singing | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 singing | cc |
| 24 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 dancing | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 playing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past · progressive | people | games and dice and the ring game | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dance | gerund | tum and tum and tum and tum | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tum=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | gerund | vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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