The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 100

The Nothing Child, with his grandmother, went out from the camp to his trap in a different direction from the rest, and in their trap they found a white wolf with a black tail.

Who acts: Nothing Child, children · What happens: go out, find · To what, where: camp, white wolf, trap

This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Nothing Child. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nothing Child, children), 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 Child	det
2	Nothing	nothing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Child	amod
3	Child	Child	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 went	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 grandmother	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 grandmother	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 grandmother	nmod:poss
7	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Child	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Child	punct
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	out	out	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 camp	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 camp	det
13	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 trap	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 trap	nmod:poss
16	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 direction	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 direction	det
19	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 direction	amod
20	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 trap	nmod
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 rest	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 rest	det
23	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 direction	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 found	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 found	cc
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 trap	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 trap	nmod:poss
28	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 found	obl
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 found	nsubj
30	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 went	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 wolf	det
32	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 wolf	amod
33	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 found	obj
34	with	with	ADP	_	37 tail	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 tail	det
36	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 tail	amod
37	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 found	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	the Nothing Child			the camp		to wolf's trap in a different direction from the rest; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	find	past	children = child	a white wolf		children's trap		with a black tail	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic

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, Nothing Child, sentence 100

The tree

Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 100