The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 38
He reached the branch where the arrow was, but when he stretched out his hand to take it it moved up a little higher, just beyond his fingers.
Who acts: boy, arrow, hand · What happens: reach, be, stretch out, take, move up · To what, where: branch, hand
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, arrow, hand), 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 reached | nsubj |
| 2 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 branch | det |
| 4 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reached | obj |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 was | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 arrow | det |
| 7 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 was | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 reached | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stretched | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 stretched | cc |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 stretched | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stretched | nsubj |
| 13 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 reached | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 stretched | compound:prt |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hand | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stretched | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 take | mark |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 stretched | advcl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 take | obj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 moved | nsubj |
| 21 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 take | ccomp |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 moved | compound:prt |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 little | det |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 higher | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 moved | xcomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 fingers | punct |
| 27 | just | just | ADV | _ | 30 fingers | advmod |
| 28 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 30 fingers | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 30 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 take | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | boy | the branch | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent branch=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | past | the arrow | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stretch out | past | boy | boy's hand | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 4 | take | to-infinitive | boy not said here | hand | beyond boy's fingers | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme clause=Attribute | |||
| 5 | move up | past | hand | high property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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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