The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 161
The Blackbird had flown into the lodge with the ring, and after the brothers had finished killing, they went into the lodge.
Who acts: Blackbird, brothers · What happens: fly, finish, go · To what, where: lodge, killing
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 (Blackbird, brothers), 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 Blackbird | det |
| 2 | Blackbird | Blackbird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 flown | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flown | aux |
| 4 | flown | fly | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 lodge | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lodge | det |
| 7 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flown | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 ring | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ring | det |
| 10 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lodge | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 finished | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 finished | cc |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 brothers | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 brothers | det |
| 15 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 finished | obl |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 finished | aux |
| 17 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 flown | advcl |
| 18 | killing | killing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 finished | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 went | nsubj |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flown | parataxis |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 lodge | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 lodge | det |
| 24 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past · perfect | the Blackbird | into the lodge with the ring result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into lodge=Result | ||||
| 2 | finish | past · perfect | the Blackbird not said here | killing | after the brothers | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality killing=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | go | past | brothers = brother | the lodge | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into lodge=Initial_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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