The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 138
When he got close to them he stopped, and then went back again, and again came running and shouting upon the chips, but nothing happened.
Who acts: man, nothing · What happens: get, stop, go back, come, run, shout
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 (man, nothing), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stopped | advcl |
| 4 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 got | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 close | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 stopped | nsubj |
| 8 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 went | advmod |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stopped | conj |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 came | cc |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 came | advmod |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stopped | parataxis |
| 19 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 came | advcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 shouting | cc |
| 21 | shouting | shout | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 running | conj |
| 22 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 24 chips | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 chips | det |
| 24 | chips | chip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 shouting | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 happened | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 happened | cc |
| 27 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 28 happened | nsubj |
| 28 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 came | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | man | close property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | man | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | go back | past | man not said here | then; again | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | come | past | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | run | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | shout speech: express | gerund | upon the chips | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | happen | past | nothing | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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