The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 11

That night the chief’s son went over to his friend’s lodge to sleep there, but before they went to bed he left the lodge for a time, and while he was gone the poor boy, as he sat there waiting, began to think about himself and how unhappy he was.

Who acts: night, people, chief, boy · What happens: go over, sleep, go, leave, be, sit · To what, where: bed, lodge

This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night, people, chief, boy), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 chief	det
4	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 son	nmod:poss
5	’s	's	PART	_	4 chief	case
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 night	nmod
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	over	over	ADV	_	7 went	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	13 lodge	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 friend	nmod:poss
11	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lodge	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 friend	case
13	lodge	lodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 sleep	mark
15	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 went	advcl
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 sleep	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 left	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 left	cc
19	before	before	SCONJ	_	21 went	mark
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	25 left	advcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 bed	case
23	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 went	obl
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 left	nsubj
25	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 lodge	det
27	lodge	lodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 left	obj
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 time	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 time	det
30	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 left	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 sat	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 sat	cc
33	while	while	SCONJ	_	36 gone	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 gone	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 gone	cop
36	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 sat	advcl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 boy	det
38	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 boy	amod
39	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 gone	nsubj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 sat	punct
41	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 sat	mark
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 sat	nsubj
43	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	parataxis
44	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 sat	advmod
45	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	43 sat	advcl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 began	punct
47	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 sat	conj
48	to	to	PART	_	49 think	mark
49	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 began	xcomp
50	about	about	ADP	_	51 himself	case
51	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	49 think	obl
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 unhappy	cc
53	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	54 unhappy	advmod
54	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 think	conj
55	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 unhappy	nsubj
56	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 unhappy	cop
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go over	past	that night the chief's son				to chief's friend's lodge; over property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	sleep	to-infinitive	that night the chief's son not said here		there			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go	past	people		bed			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
4	leave	past	chief	the lodge		time		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lodge=Theme
5	is	past	chief				the poor boy nsubj; gone property	tree rules
6	sit	past	boy		there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	wait	gerund	boy not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	begin	past	boy not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
9	think speech: other	to-infinitive	boy not said here				about boy	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about himself=Topic
10	is	past	boy				unhappy 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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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 11