The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 37

But the boy was very anxious to get that bird and his arrow, and would not listen to the bear’s words, but began to climb the tree.

Who acts: boy, bear · What happens: be, get, not listen, begin, climb, word · To what, where: bird, 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, bear), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 anxious	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 anxious	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 anxious	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 anxious	advmod
6	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 get	mark
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 anxious	advcl
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 bird	det
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 arrow	cc
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 arrow	nmod:poss
13	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bird	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 listen	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 listen	cc
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 listen	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 listen	advmod
18	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 anxious	parataxis
19	to	to	ADP	_	23 words	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bear	det
21	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 words	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 bear	case
23	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 listen	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 began	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 began	cc
26	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 listen	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 climb	mark
28	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 began	xcomp
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 tree	det
30	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 climb	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 anxious	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the boy		anxious property	tree rules
2	get	to-infinitive	the boy not said here	that bird and boy's arrow		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus
3	not listen	would			to the bear's words	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme
4	begin	past				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	climb	to-infinitive		the tree		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
6	word		the bear			nom word «communication 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 37

The tree

Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 37