The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 149
Nothing Child took hold of this and began to pull on it, and more and more came out, and at last he had pulled out the whole of his old lodge, and then he pulled out the lining, and afterwards many of his old belongings.
Who acts: Nothing, piece · What happens: take, begin, pull, come out, pull out, hold · To what, where: hold, piece, last, lining, this
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, piece), 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 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 took | nsubj |
| 2 | Child | Child | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Nothing | appos |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 this | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 hold | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 began | cc |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 pull | mark |
| 10 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 began | xcomp |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 pull | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 came | cc |
| 15 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 came | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 more | cc |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 more | conj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADV | _ | 18 came | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 pulled | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 pulled | cc |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 last | case |
| 23 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pulled | obl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 pulled | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 pulled | aux |
| 26 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 took | parataxis |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 pulled | compound:prt |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 whole | det |
| 29 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 pulled | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 lodge | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 lodge | nmod:poss |
| 32 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 lodge | amod |
| 33 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 whole | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 pulled | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 pulled | cc |
| 36 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 38 pulled | advmod |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 pulled | nsubj |
| 38 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 39 | out | out | ADP | _ | 38 pulled | compound:prt |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 lining | det |
| 41 | lining | lining | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 pulled | obj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 belongings | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 belongings | cc |
| 44 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 45 many | advmod |
| 45 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 belongings | amod |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 belongings | case |
| 47 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 belongings | nmod:poss |
| 48 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 belongings | amod |
| 49 | belongings | belonging | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Nothing | hold of this | of piece's many old belongings | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent hold=Theme of belonging=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | begin | past | Nothing not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | pull | to-infinitive | Nothing not said here | on hold | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come out | past | Nothing not said here | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | pull out | past · perfect · passive | piece | last | the whole of piece's old lodge obl | tree rules | |||
| 6 | pull out | past | piece | the lining | then | tree rules | |||
| 7 | hold | this | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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