The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 120

When the girl came to the lodge and went in, the old woman told her to sit down.

Who acts: girl, old woman · What happens: come, go in, tell, sit down · To what, where: lodge, chief · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (girl, old woman), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 told	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 lodge	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lodge	det
7	lodge	lodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 went	cc
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
10	in	in	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 woman	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 woman	amod
14	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 told	nsubj
15	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 told	iobj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 sit	mark
18	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 told	xcomp
19	down	down	ADP	_	18 sit	compound:prt
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	come	past	the girl		the lodge	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lodge=Initial_Location
2	go in	past	the girl not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	the old woman	chief		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	sit down not said to happen	to-infinitive	the old woman not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 120