The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 184
Raven Arrow promised that he would never again do so, and Nothing Child untied him and let him down, when he changed into a man again.
Who acts: Raven Arrow, raven, Nothing Child · What happens: promise, do, untie, let down, change · To what, where: raven
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 Arrow, raven, Nothing Child), 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 | Raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Arrow | compound |
| 2 | Arrow | Arrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 promised | nsubj |
| 3 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | aux |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 again | advmod |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 do | advmod |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 promised | advcl |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 do | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 untied | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 untied | cc |
| 13 | Nothing | nothing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Child | amod |
| 14 | Child | Child | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 untied | nsubj |
| 15 | untied | untie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 promised | parataxis |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 untied | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 let | cc |
| 18 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 untied | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 let | obj |
| 20 | down | down | ADP | _ | 18 let | compound:prt |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 changed | punct |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 changed | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 changed | nsubj |
| 24 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 untied | conj |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 man | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 man | det |
| 27 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 changed | obl |
| 28 | again | again | ADV | _ | 24 changed | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | Raven Arrow | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | do | would | raven | again; never | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | untie | past | Nothing Child | raven | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 4 | let down | infinitive | Nothing Child not said here | raven | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | change | past | raven | again | into a man result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into man=Result |
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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