The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay Visits the Ghosts, sentence 53
Soon Bluejay felt something in his net and raised it, but only two dead branches were in it.
Who acts: Bluejay, two dead branches · What happens: feel, raise, be · To what, where: something, net
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, two dead branches), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 felt | advmod |
| 2 | Bluejay | Bluejay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 felt | nsubj |
| 3 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 felt | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 net | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 net | nmod:poss |
| 7 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 felt | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 raised | cc |
| 9 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 felt | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 raised | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 it | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 it | cc |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 two | advmod |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 branches | nummod |
| 15 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 branches | amod |
| 16 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 it | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 it | cop |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 raised | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Bluejay | something | Bluejay's net | soon property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent something=Theme in net=Location | ||
| 2 | raise | past | Bluejay not said here | net | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | two dead branches | net | tree rules |
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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