The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Ragged Head, sentence 43

In the night, after it was dark and the camp had become quiet, the young men crept down to the river, close to the lodges, to see what they might do.

Who acts: camp, young men, lodges · What happens: be, become, creep down, see, do · To what, where: river · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Ragged Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (camp, young men, lodges), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 night	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 night	det
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dark	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 night	punct
5	after	after	SCONJ	_	8 dark	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 dark	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dark	cop
8	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 become	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 camp	det
11	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 become	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 become	aux
13	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 dark	conj
14	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 become	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 crept	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 men	det
17	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 men	amod
18	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 crept	nsubj
19	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dark	advcl
20	down	down	ADV	_	19 crept	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 river	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 river	det
23	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 crept	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 close	punct
25	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 river	amod
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 lodges	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 lodges	det
28	lodges	lodge	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 close	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 see	punct
30	to	to	PART	_	31 see	mark
31	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 crept	conj
32	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	35 do	obj
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 do	nsubj
34	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 do	aux
35	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 see	ccomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 dark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	camp		night	dark property	tree rules
2	become	past · perfect	the camp			quiet property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	creep down	past	the young men	the river		down property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to river=Destination
4	see	to-infinitive	the young men not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	do	might	lodges = lodge			what obj	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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 tree

Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Ragged Head, sentence 43