The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 46
After the boy and the bear had left the camp, the older brother kept thinking of what had taken place.
Who acts: older brother · What happens: leave, keep, think, take · To what, where: boy, place
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 (older brother), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 8 left | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 bear | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bear | det |
| 6 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 boy | conj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 left | aux |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 kept | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 camp | det |
| 10 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 left | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 brother | det |
| 13 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 brother | amod |
| 14 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kept | nsubj |
| 15 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 kept | xcomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 what | case |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 thinking | obl |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 taken | aux |
| 20 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 what | acl:relcl |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 taken | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · perfect · passive | the boy and the bear | the camp obj | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme camp=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | the older brother | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | the older brother not said here | what obl | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | take | past · perfect | place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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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