The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 106
The young men set their traps all over the prairie, but Nothing Child asked his grandmother to go with him, and he went to a place far from all the others and there set his trap.
Who acts: young men, Nothing Child, man · What happens: set, ask, go · To what, where: traps, prairie, grandmother, place, 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 (young men, Nothing Child, man), 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 men | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 men | amod |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 set | nsubj |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 traps | nmod:poss |
| 6 | traps | trap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 set | obj |
| 7 | all | all | ADV | _ | 10 prairie | advmod |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 prairie | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prairie | det |
| 10 | prairie | prairie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 asked | cc |
| 13 | Nothing | nothing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Child | amod |
| 14 | Child | Child | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 17 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 go | mark |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 asked | xcomp |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 go | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 went | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 went | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 went | nsubj |
| 25 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | parataxis |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 place | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 place | det |
| 28 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 went | obl |
| 29 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 went | advmod |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 others | case |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 others | det:predet |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 others | det |
| 33 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 far | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 set | cc |
| 35 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 set | advmod |
| 36 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 went | conj |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 trap | nmod:poss |
| 38 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 set | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | the young men | daughters's traps | the prairie | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent trap=Theme over prairie=Destination | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Nothing Child | man's grandmother | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent grandmother=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | Nothing Child not said here | with man | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | go | past | man | a place | far property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | set | past | man not said here | man's trap | there | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient trap=Result |
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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