The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay Visits the Ghosts, sentence 44
Now, as they floated down the stream, Bluejay sat silent, and was wondering what all this meant, and pretty soon when he looked back at the stern of the canoe the boy was sitting there again.
Who acts: bones, Bluejay, this, boy · What happens: float, sit, wonder, mean, look back · To what, where: stream, canoe
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 (bones, Bluejay, this, boy), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 floated | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 floated | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 floated | nsubj |
| 5 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 stream | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stream | det |
| 8 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 floated | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sat | punct |
| 10 | Bluejay | Bluejay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sat | nsubj |
| 11 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 floated | conj |
| 12 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sat | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wondering | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wondering | cc |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 wondering | aux |
| 16 | wondering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 sat | advcl |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 wondering | obj |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 meant | det:predet |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 meant | nsubj |
| 20 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 what | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 looked | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 looked | cc |
| 23 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 24 soon | advmod |
| 24 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 looked | advmod |
| 25 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 looked | advmod |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 looked | nsubj |
| 27 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 floated | conj |
| 28 | back | back | ADV | _ | 27 looked | advmod |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 stern | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 stern | det |
| 31 | stern | stern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 looked | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 canoe | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 canoe | det |
| 34 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 stern | nmod |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 boy | det |
| 36 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 sitting | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 sitting | aux |
| 38 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 canoe | acl:relcl |
| 39 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 38 sitting | advmod |
| 40 | again | again | ADV | _ | 38 sitting | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 floated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | past | bones = bone | the stream | now | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down stream=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | sit | past | Bluejay | silent property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | past · progressive | Bluejay not said here | what obj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | mean | past | this | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | look back | past | Bluejay | at the stern of the canoe; soon property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at stern=Theme | ||||
| 6 | sit | past · progressive | the boy | the canoe not said here | there | again | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location canoe=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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