The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 51

Plover Call went to the doorway and beckoned to the young man, and when he had entered, her father and mother motioned him to a seat, and soon began to talk to him, asking many questions.

Who acts: Plover Call, man, father · What happens: go, beckon, enter, motion, begin, talk · To what, where: doorway, young man, man, many questions

This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Plover Call, man, father), 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	Plover	plover	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Call	compound
2	Call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 doorway	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 doorway	det
6	doorway	doorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 beckoned	cc
8	beckoned	beckon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 went	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 man	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 beckoned	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 entered	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 entered	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 entered	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 entered	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 entered	aux
18	entered	enter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 went	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 motioned	punct
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 father	nmod:poss
21	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 motioned	nsubj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 mother	cc
23	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 father	conj
24	motioned	motion	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 entered	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 motioned	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 seat	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 seat	det
28	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 motioned	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 began	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 began	cc
31	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 began	advmod
32	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 talk	mark
34	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 began	xcomp
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 talk	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 asking	punct
38	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 talk	advcl
39	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 questions	amod
40	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 asking	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	Plover Call			the doorway		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to doorway=Initial_Location
2	beckon	participle	Plover Call not said here		the young man			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient
3	enter	past · perfect	man					vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	motion	past	Call's father and mother	man			to a seat	tree rules
5	begin	past	Plover Call not said here				soon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	talk	to-infinitive	Plover Call not said here		man			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent
7	ask speech: ask	gerund	Plover Call not said here	many questions				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient

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, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 51

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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 51