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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 21

He sent out his young brother to hang up the meat that he had brought in, and the boy went leaving arrows lying by the fire to dry.

Who acts: hair, boy, arrows · What happens: send out, hang up, bring in, go, leave, lie · To what, where: young brother, meat, arrows

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 (hair, boy, arrows), 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

nsubjcompound:prtnmod:possamodobjmarkadvclcompound:prtdetobjmarknsubjauxadvcladvmodpunctccdetnsubjconjxcompobjaclcasedetoblmarkadvclpunctrootHePRONsentVERBoutADPhisPRONyoungADJbrotherNOUNtoPARThangVERBupADPtheDETmeatNOUNthatSCONJhePRONhadAUXbroughtVERBinADV,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETboyNOUNwentVERBleavingVERBarrowsNOUNlyingVERBbyADPtheDETfireNOUNtoPARTdryVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 sentnsubj
2sentsendVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3outoutADP_2 sentcompound:prt
4hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs6 brothernmod:poss
5youngyoungADJDegree=Pos6 brotheramod
6brotherbrotherNOUNNumber=Sing2 sentobj
7totoPART_8 hangmark
8hanghangVERBVerbForm=Inf2 sentadvcl
9upupADP_8 hangcompound:prt
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 meatdet
11meatmeatNOUNNumber=Sing8 hangobj
12thatthatSCONJ_15 broughtmark
13hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 broughtnsubj
14hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 broughtaux
15broughtbringVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part8 hangadvcl
16ininADV_15 broughtadvmod
17,,PUNCT_21 wentpunct
18andandCCONJ_21 wentcc
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 boydet
20boyboyNOUNNumber=Sing21 wentnsubj
21wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 sentconj
22leavingleaveVERBVerbForm=Ger21 wentxcomp
23arrowsarrowNOUNNumber=Plur22 leavingobj
24lyinglieVERBVerbForm=Ger23 arrowsacl
25bybyADP_27 firecase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 firedet
27firefireNOUNNumber=Sing24 lyingobl
28totoPART_29 drymark
29drydryVERBVerbForm=Inf24 lyingadvcl
30..PUNCT_2 sentpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1send outpasthairhair's young brothervn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme
2hang upto-infinitivehair not said herethe meatvn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient
3bring inpast · perfecthairvn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
4gopastthe boyvn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5leavegerundthe boy not said herearrowsvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme
6liegerundarrows not said hereby the firevn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location
7dryto-infinitivearrows not said herevn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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