The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay Visits the Ghosts, sentence 63
When they went up from the beach to the houses the boy was carrying a mat full of trout.
Who acts: branches, boy · What happens: go up, carry · To what, where: beach, mat
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 (branches, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 beach | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 beach | det |
| 7 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 houses | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 houses | det |
| 10 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boy | det |
| 12 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carrying | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 carrying | aux |
| 14 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 mat | det |
| 16 | mat | mat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carrying | obj |
| 17 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 mat | amod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 trout | case |
| 19 | trout | trout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 full | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | branches = branch | the beach | to the houses result | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient from beach=Initial_State to house=Result | |||
| 2 | carry | past · progressive | the boy | a mat | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mat=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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