The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 202
Now the poor boy was more highly thought of than ever.
What happens: think · To what, where: poor boy
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: 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 | 8 thought | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boy | det |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 boy | amod |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 thought | aux:pass |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 highly | advmod |
| 7 | highly | highly | ADV | _ | 8 thought | advmod |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 thought | obl |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 ever | case |
| 11 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 thought | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past · passive | the poor boy | now | highly property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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