The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 25
When the boy came back from hanging up the meat, he looked for his arrows but did not see them.
Who acts: boy · What happens: come back, hang up, look, not see · To what, where: 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 (boy), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 looked | advcl |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 7 hanging | mark |
| 7 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 came | advcl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 hanging | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 meat | det |
| 10 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hanging | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 looked | nsubj |
| 13 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 arrows | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 arrows | nmod:poss |
| 16 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 looked | obl |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 see | cc |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 see | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 see | advmod |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 looked | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 see | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | the boy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hang up | gerund | the boy not said here | the meat | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient | ||||
| 3 | look | past | boy | for boy's arrows | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for arrow=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not see | past · do-support | boy not said here | arrows = arrow | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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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