The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay Visits the Ghosts, sentence 65
If he had not thrown it away, our canoe would have been almost full.”
Who acts: canoe · What happens: not throw away, be · To what, where: boy
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 (canoe), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 thrown | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thrown | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 thrown | advmod |
| 5 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 full | advcl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thrown | obj |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 thrown | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 thrown | punct |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 canoe | nmod:poss |
| 10 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 full | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 full | aux |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 full | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 full | cop |
| 14 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 15 full | advmod |
| 15 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 full | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not throw away a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | boy | deal obj; away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | would · perfect | our canoe | almost, full property | 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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