The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 42
About sundown all the boy’s clothing came tumbling down together, but nothing was seen of the boy.
Who acts: clothing, boy · What happens: come, tumble down, see · To what, where: 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 (clothing, 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 | About | about | ADP | _ | 2 sundown | case |
| 2 | sundown | sundown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 clothing | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boy | det |
| 5 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 clothing | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 boy | case |
| 7 | clothing | clothing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | tumbling | tumble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 came | xcomp |
| 10 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 tumbling | advmod |
| 11 | together | together | ADV | _ | 9 tumbling | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 seen | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 seen | cc |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 seen | aux:pass |
| 16 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 came | advcl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 boy | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 boy | det |
| 19 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seen | obl:agent |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the boy's clothing | about sundown | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tumble down | gerund | the boy's clothing not said here | down, together property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | see | past · passive | the boy | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=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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