The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 11

While the older brother was hunting, the younger one used to stay at home, making arrows and shooting with them, and at length he became a very good shot.

Who acts: older brother, brother · What happens: hunt, use, stay, make, shoot, become · To what, where: younger one, home, arrows, good shot, length

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 (older brother, brother), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	6 hunting	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brother	det
3	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 brother	amod
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hunting	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hunting	aux
6	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hunting	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 one	det
9	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 one	amod
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hunting	obj
11	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 one	acl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 stay	mark
13	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 used	xcomp
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 home	case
15	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stay	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 making	punct
17	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 stay	advcl
18	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 making	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 shooting	cc
20	shooting	shoot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 making	conj
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 shooting	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 became	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 became	cc
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 length	case
26	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 became	obl
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 became	nsubj
28	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 making	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 shot	det
30	very	very	ADV	_	31 good	advmod
31	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 shot	amod
32	shot	shot	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 became	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hunting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hunt	past · progressive	the older brother	the younger one			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
2	use	participle		the younger one not said here			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	stay	to-infinitive			home		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location
4	make	gerund		arrows			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset arrow=Product
5	shoot	gerund				with lodges = lodge	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with they=Instrument
6	become	past	brother	a good shot	length		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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 11