The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay Visits the Ghosts, sentence 91
He did this several times, but at last they reached the fishing-place, and began to fish with the dip-net.
Who acts: Bluejay, bones · What happens: do, reach, begin, fish · To what, where: fishing place, last
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, bones), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 times | det |
| 4 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 times | amod |
| 5 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 did | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 reached | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 reached | cc |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 last | case |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 reached | obl |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 reached | nsubj |
| 11 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 place | det |
| 13 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 place | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 fishing | punct |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reached | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 began | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 began | cc |
| 18 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 fish | mark |
| 20 | fish | fish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 began | xcomp |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 net | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 net | det |
| 23 | dip | dip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 net | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 dip | punct |
| 25 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fish | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Bluejay | time | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | bones = bone | the fishing place | last | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent place=Theme at last=Asset | |||
| 3 | begin | past | Bluejay not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | fish | to-infinitive | Bluejay not said here | with the dip net | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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