The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Medicine Lodge, sentence 25

When he reached the top of the butte, he threw himself upon the ground and wept and prayed to the Sun to have pity on him and remove the scar.

Who acts: person · What happens: reach, throw, weep, pray, have, remove · To what, where: top, person, ground, pity, scar

This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The First Medicine Lodge. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (person), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 reached	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 threw	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 top	det
5	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 butte	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 butte	det
8	butte	butte	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 top	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 reached	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 threw	nsubj
11	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 threw	obj
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 ground	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ground	det
15	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 threw	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 wept	cc
17	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 threw	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 prayed	cc
19	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 threw	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 Sun	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Sun	det
22	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 prayed	obl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 have	mark
24	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 prayed	ccomp
25	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 have	obj
26	on	on	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 have	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 remove	cc
29	remove	remove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 have	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 scar	det
31	scar	scar	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 remove	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	person	the top of the butte			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent top=Theme
2	throw	past	person	person	the ground		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme upon ground=Destination
3	weep	past	person not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	pray	past	person not said here			to the Sun	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	have	to-infinitive	person not said here	pity		on person	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient
6	remove	infinitive	person not said here	the scar			vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scar=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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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Medicine Lodge, sentence 25