The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 140

The next day Nothing Child told his wife to go to her father’s lodge for the day, and not to return until night.

Who acts: Nothing · What happens: tell, go, not return · To what, where: wife, lodge · 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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obl:unmarked
4	Nothing	Nothing	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 told	nsubj
5	Child	Child	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Nothing	flat
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wife	nmod:poss
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	iobj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 go	mark
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 told	xcomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	15 lodge	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 father	nmod:poss
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lodge	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 father	case
15	lodge	lodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	obl
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 day	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 day	det
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 return	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 return	cc
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 return	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 return	mark
23	return	return	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 told	parataxis
24	until	until	ADP	_	25 night	case
25	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 return	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Nothing	man's wife		day	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	Nothing not said here		sister's father's lodge	day	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lodge=Initial_Location
3	not return	to-infinitive				night	vn escape-51.1-1 «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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🌲 The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 140

The tree

Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 140