The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 44
He waited there, hoping to see what had become of the boy, but that was the last of him.
Who acts: boy, that · What happens: wait, hope, see, become, be · To what, where: boy · Speech: someone speaks here
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, that), 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 waited | nsubj |
| 2 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 waited | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hoping | punct |
| 5 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 waited | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hoping | xcomp |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 become | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 become | aux |
| 10 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 see | ccomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 boy | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 boy | det |
| 13 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 become | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 last | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 last | cc |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 last | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 last | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 last | det |
| 19 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 waited | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 last | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | boy | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hope | gerund | boy not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | boy not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | become | past · perfect | the boy | what nsubj | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is | past | that | of boy; last property | tree rules |
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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