The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay Visits the Ghosts, sentence 19
On the bed near where his sister was sitting lay a skull and some bones.
Who acts: sister, you · What happens: sit, lay · To what, where: skull, bed
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 (sister, you), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 bed | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bed | det |
| 3 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lay | obl |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 9 sitting | mark |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 sitting | advmod |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sister | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sitting | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sitting | aux |
| 9 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 bed | acl |
| 10 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 skull | det |
| 12 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lay | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bones | cc |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 bones | det |
| 15 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 skull | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | Bluejay's sister | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lay | imperative | you not said here | a skull and some bones | the bed | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent skull=Theme on bed=Destination |
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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