The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 148
The Hawk took the ring in his claws and flew off with it, and the Rabbit ran off to one side and hid in the long grass.
Who acts: Hawk, Rabbit · What happens: take, fly off, run off, hide · To what, where: ring, claws, long grass
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hawk, Rabbit), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Hawk | det |
| 2 | Hawk | Hawk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ring | det |
| 5 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 claws | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 claws | nmod:poss |
| 8 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 flew | cc |
| 10 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 flew | compound:prt |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 flew | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ran | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ran | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Rabbit | det |
| 17 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ran | nsubj |
| 18 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 ran | compound:prt |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 side | case |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 side | nummod |
| 22 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ran | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 hid | cc |
| 24 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 grass | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 grass | det |
| 27 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 grass | amod |
| 28 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hid | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Hawk | the ring | Hawk's claws | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ring=Value in claw=Location | |||
| 2 | fly off | past | the Hawk not said here | with ring | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | run off | past | the Rabbit | to one side result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to side=Result | ||||
| 4 | hide | past | the Hawk not said here | the long grass | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in grass=Location |
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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