The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 33

He threw sticks at it, but could not knock it down, so he made up his mind that he would climb the tree and get the bird and his arrow.

Who acts: boy · What happens: throw, not knock down, make up, climb, get, mind · To what, where: sticks, bird, mind, tree

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 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 threw	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 knock	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 knock	cc
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 knock	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 knock	advmod
10	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 threw	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 knock	obj
12	down	down	ADP	_	10 knock	compound:prt
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 made	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 made	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 made	nsubj
16	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 threw	conj
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 made	compound:prt
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mind	nmod:poss
19	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 made	obj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 climb	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 climb	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 climb	aux
23	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 made	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 tree	det
25	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 climb	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 get	cc
27	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 climb	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 bird	det
29	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 get	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 arrow	cc
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 arrow	nmod:poss
32	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bird	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	throw	past	boy	sticks	at bird	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stick=Theme at it=Destination
2	not knock down	could	boy not said here	bird		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	make up	past	boy	boy's mind		vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot
4	climb	would	boy	the tree		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
5	get	infinitive	boy not said here	the bird and boy's arrow		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus
6	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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🌲 The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 33

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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 33