The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay Visits the Ghosts, sentence 92
Now Bluejay took into the canoe all the branches that he caught, and all the leaves, and when the tide began to fall their canoe was full, and they started homeward.
Who acts: Bluejay, tide, canoe, bones · What happens: take, catch, begin, fall, be, start · To what, where: branches, canoe, homeward
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, tide, canoe, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | Bluejay | Bluejay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 canoe | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 canoe | det |
| 6 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 branches | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 branches | det |
| 9 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 caught | obj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 caught | nsubj |
| 12 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 branches | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 leaves | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 leaves | cc |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 leaves | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 leaves | det |
| 17 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 began | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 began | cc |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 began | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 tide | det |
| 22 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 began | nsubj |
| 23 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 fall | mark |
| 25 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 began | xcomp |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 canoe | nmod:poss |
| 27 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 full | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 full | cop |
| 29 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 fall | ccomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 started | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 started | cc |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 started | nsubj |
| 33 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 34 | homeward | homeward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 started | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Bluejay | all branches | the canoe | now | all leaves obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent branch=Theme into canoe=Destination | |
| 2 | catch | past | Bluejay | all branches | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | the tide | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | fall | to-infinitive | the tide not said here | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | past | bones's canoe | full property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | start | past | bones = bone | homeward | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homeward=Eventuality |
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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