The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 127
So she stayed, and was pleasant and nice with the boy and played with him, and he liked her.
Who acts: sister, boy · What happens: stay, be, play, like · To what, where: sister
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 (sister, boy), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 stayed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stayed | nsubj |
| 3 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 pleasant | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 pleasant | cc |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pleasant | cop |
| 7 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stayed | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 nice | cc |
| 9 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pleasant | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 boy | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boy | det |
| 12 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pleasant | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 played | cc |
| 14 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stayed | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 played | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 liked | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 liked | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 liked | nsubj |
| 20 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stayed | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 liked | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | sister | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | sister not said here | with the boy; pleasant property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | sister not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | play | past | sister not said here | with boy | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | like | past | boy | sister | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot she=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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