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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 41

For the rest of the day the bear stood at the foot of the tree, looking upward and whining and moaning for his friend, but he saw nothing of him.

Who acts: bear, boy · What happens: stand, look, whine, moan, see · To what, where: foot, nothing

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 (bear, 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

casedetoblcasedetnmoddetnsubjcasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctadvcladvmodccconjccconjcasenmod:possoblpunctccnsubjconjobjcasenmodpunctrootForADPtheDETrestNOUNofADPtheDETdayNOUNtheDETbearNOUNstoodVERBatADPtheDETfootNOUNofADPtheDETtreeNOUN,PUNCTlookingVERBupwardADVandCCONJwhiningVERBandCCONJmoaningVERBforADPhisPRONfriendNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJhePRONsawVERBnothingPRONofADPhimPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ForforADP_3 restcase
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 restdet
3restrestNOUNNumber=Sing9 stoodobl
4ofofADP_6 daycase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 daydet
6daydayNOUNNumber=Sing3 restnmod
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 beardet
8bearbearNOUNNumber=Sing9 stoodnsubj
9stoodstandVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
10atatADP_12 footcase
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 footdet
12footfootNOUNNumber=Sing9 stoodobl
13ofofADP_15 treecase
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 treedet
15treetreeNOUNNumber=Sing12 footnmod
16,,PUNCT_17 lookingpunct
17lookinglookVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part9 stoodadvcl
18upwardupwardADV_17 lookingadvmod
19andandCCONJ_20 whiningcc
20whiningwhineVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part17 lookingconj
21andandCCONJ_22 moaningcc
22moaningmoanVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part20 whiningconj
23forforADP_25 friendcase
24hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs25 friendnmod:poss
25friendfriendNOUNNumber=Sing22 moaningobl
26,,PUNCT_29 sawpunct
27butbutCCONJ_29 sawcc
28hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 sawnsubj
29sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 stoodconj
30nothingnothingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Neg29 sawobj
31ofofADP_32 himcase
32himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 nothingnmod
33..PUNCT_9 stoodpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1standpastthe bearthe foot of the treefor the rest of the dayvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location
2lookgerundthe bear not said hereupward propertyvn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3whinegerundthe bear not said herevn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4moangerundthe bear not said herefor boy's friendvn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for friend=Recipient
5seepastboynothing of friendvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=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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