The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 28
He made up his mind that he could not live here with his brother any longer, and decided to go away.
Who acts: boy · What happens: make up, not live, decide, go away, mind · To what, where: mind
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 made | compound:prt |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mind | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 live | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 live | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 live | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 live | advmod |
| 10 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 made | advcl |
| 11 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 live | advmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 brother | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 brother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 live | obl |
| 15 | any | any | ADV | _ | 16 longer | advmod |
| 16 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 live | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 decided | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 decided | cc |
| 19 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 go | mark |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 decided | xcomp |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 go | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | past | boy | boy's mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | not live | could | boy | here | with boy's brother; long property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with brother=Location | |||
| 3 | decide | past | boy not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | go away not said to happen | to-infinitive | boy not said here | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | mind | boy | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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