The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 182

When Nothing Child saw him he seized him and tied him by the feet to a lodge pole high up in the smoke and kept him there until he was nearly dead from the smoke.

Who acts: Nothing Child, raven · What happens: see, seize, tie, high up, keep, be · To what, where: raven, husband, smoke

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 Child, raven), 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	4 saw	advmod
2	Nothing	nothing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Child	amod
3	Child	Child	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 seized	advcl
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 seized	nsubj
7	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 seized	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tied	cc
10	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 seized	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tied	obj
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 feet	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 feet	det
14	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 tied	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 pole	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 pole	det
17	lodge	lodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pole	compound
18	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 high	obl
19	high	high	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 tied	parataxis
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 high	compound:prt
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 smoke	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 smoke	det
23	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 high	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 kept	cc
25	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 seized	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 kept	obj
27	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 kept	advmod
28	until	until	SCONJ	_	32 dead	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 dead	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 dead	cop
31	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	32 dead	advmod
32	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 kept	advcl
33	from	from	ADP	_	35 smoke	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 smoke	det
35	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dead	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	Nothing Child	raven			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	seize	past	raven	husband			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	tie	past	raven not said here	raven		by the feet	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	high up	present			the smoke	to a lodge pole	tree rules
5	keep	past	raven not said here	raven	there		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	is	past	raven		the smoke	dead, nearly property	tree rules

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 182