The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Ragged Head, sentence 44

The older boy said to his companion, “I will go first into the camp and see how things are there, and perhaps take a horse or two, and then I will come back here and tell you, and we can both go back and take more horses if all goes well.”

Who acts: older boy, things, we, all · What happens: say, go, see, be, take, come back · To what, where: companion, camp, horse, more horses · 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 (older boy, things, we, all), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 companion	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 companion	nmod:poss
7	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 go	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 go	aux
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
13	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 go	advmod
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 camp	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 camp	det
16	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 see	cc
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 go	conj
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 there	advmod
20	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 there	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 there	cop
22	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 see	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 take	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 take	cc
25	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	26 take	advmod
26	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 horse	det
28	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 take	obj
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 two	cc
30	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 horse	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 come	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 come	cc
33	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 come	advmod
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 come	nsubj
35	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 come	aux
36	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 take	conj
37	back	back	ADV	_	38 here	advmod
38	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 come	advmod
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 tell	cc
40	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	36 come	conj
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 tell	iobj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 go	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 go	cc
44	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 go	nsubj
45	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 go	aux
46	both	both	ADV	_	47 go	advmod
47	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 tell	ccomp
48	back	back	ADV	_	47 go	advmod
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 take	cc
50	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 go	conj
51	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	52 horses	amod
52	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 take	obj
53	if	if	SCONJ	_	55 goes	mark
54	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	55 goes	nsubj
55	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 take	advcl
56	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	55 goes	advmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 take	punct
58	”	"	PUNCT	_	26 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the older boy	boy's companion				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to companion=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go in a quote	future	the older boy = boy		the camp		first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into camp=Initial_Location
3	see in a quote	infinitive	the older boy = boy not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is in a quote	present	things				there property	tree rules
5	take in a quote	infinitive		a horse			perhaps property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument horse=Destination
6	come back in a quote	future	the older boy = boy		here	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	the older boy = boy not said here	boy's companion = companion				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
8	go back in a quote	can	we				both property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
9	take in a quote	infinitive	we not said here	more horses				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument horse=Destination
10	go a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	all				well property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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, Ragged Head, sentence 44