The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 13

One day, while the young brother was sitting in the lodge making arrows, and the woman was outside tanning a hide, she called to him and said, “Oh, brother, come out and kill this pretty bird that is here,” but the boy was busy smoothing his arrows, and paid no attention.

Who acts: young brother, lodge, woman, pretty bird, boy · What happens: sit, make, tan, call, say, come out · To what, where: One day, lodge, arrows, hide, brother, pretty bird · 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 (young brother, lodge, woman, pretty bird), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 paid	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sitting	punct
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 sitting	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 brother	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 brother	amod
7	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sitting	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sitting	aux
9	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 day	acl:relcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 lodge	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lodge	det
12	lodge	lodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sitting	obl
13	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 lodge	acl
14	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 making	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 tanning	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 tanning	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 woman	det
18	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tanning	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 tanning	aux
20	outside	outside	ADV	_	21 tanning	advmod
21	tanning	tan	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 sitting	parataxis
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 hide	det
23	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tanning	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 called	punct
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 called	nsubj
26	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 tanning	parataxis
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 called	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 said	cc
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 called	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 come	punct
32	“	"	PUNCT	_	37 come	punct
33	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	37 come	discourse
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Oh	punct
35	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 Oh	vocative
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Oh	punct
37	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 said	ccomp
38	out	out	ADV	_	37 come	advmod
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 kill	cc
40	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 come	conj
41	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 bird	det
42	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 bird	amod
43	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 kill	obj
44	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 here	nsubj
45	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 here	cop
46	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 bird	acl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 here	punct
48	”	"	PUNCT	_	40 kill	punct
49	but	but	CCONJ	_	53 busy	cc
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 boy	det
51	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 busy	nsubj
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 busy	cop
53	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 come	conj
54	smoothing	smooth	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	53 busy	advcl
55	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 arrows	nmod:poss
56	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 smoothing	obj
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 paid	punct
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 paid	cc
59	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
60	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	61 attention	det
61	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 paid	obj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	59 paid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	the young brother	One day not said here		the lodge			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent day=Theme in lodge=Location
2	make	gerund	the lodge not said here	arrows					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset arrow=Product
3	tan	past · progressive	the woman	a hide				outside property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hide=Patient
4	call	past	woman		brother				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
5	say speech: assert	past	woman not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	come out in a quote	infinitive						out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
7	kill in a quote	infinitive		this pretty bird					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
8	is in a quote	present	this pretty bird					here property	tree rules
9	is	past	the boy					busy property	tree rules
10	smooth	gerund	the boy not said here	brother's arrows					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent arrow=Patient
11	pay	past		no attention			day		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset

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 13