The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 158
After a time Raven Arrow became jealous of Nothing Child because of his power, but Nothing Child did not notice this, and, because Raven Arrow was poor, he asked him to come and live with him in his lodge.
Who acts: Raven, Nothing Child, Raven Arrow · What happens: become, not notice, be, ask, come, live · To what, where: this, husband, lodge
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 (Raven, Nothing Child, Raven Arrow), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 became | obl |
| 4 | Raven | Raven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 became | nsubj |
| 5 | Arrow | Arrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Raven | flat |
| 6 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 became | xcomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Child | case |
| 9 | Nothing | nothing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Child | amod |
| 10 | Child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 jealous | obl |
| 11 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 14 power | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 because | fixed |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 power | nmod:poss |
| 14 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 jealous | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 notice | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 notice | cc |
| 17 | Nothing | nothing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Child | amod |
| 18 | Child | Child | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 notice | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 notice | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 notice | advmod |
| 21 | notice | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 became | conj |
| 22 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 notice | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 poor | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 poor | cc |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 poor | punct |
| 26 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 30 poor | mark |
| 27 | Raven | Raven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Arrow | compound |
| 28 | Arrow | Arrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 poor | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 poor | cop |
| 30 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 became | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 asked | punct |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 asked | nsubj |
| 33 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 became | conj |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 asked | iobj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 come | mark |
| 36 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 asked | xcomp |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 live | cc |
| 38 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 come | conj |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 him | case |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 live | obl |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 lodge | case |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 lodge | nmod:poss |
| 43 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 live | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Raven | time | jealous property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | not notice | past · do-support | Nothing Child | this | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Raven Arrow | poor property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | raven | husband | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | raven not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | live | infinitive | raven not said here | husband's lodge | with husband | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=Location |
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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