The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 47
When they did not come back he felt lonesome and sad, and began to fear that something would happen to his young brother, and at last he made up his mind that he would start out and learn what had become of him.
Who acts: arrows, boy, something · What happens: not come back, feel, begin, fear, happen, make up · To what, where: mind, last · 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 (arrows, boy, something), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 come | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 come | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 come | advmod |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 felt | ccomp |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 felt | nsubj |
| 8 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | lonesome | lonesome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 felt | xcomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sad | cc |
| 11 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lonesome | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 began | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 began | cc |
| 14 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 felt | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 fear | mark |
| 16 | fear | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 began | xcomp |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 happen | mark |
| 18 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 happen | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 happen | aux |
| 20 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 fear | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 brother | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 brother | nmod:poss |
| 23 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 brother | amod |
| 24 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 happen | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 made | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 made | cc |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 last | case |
| 28 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 made | obl |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 made | nsubj |
| 30 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 began | conj |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 made | compound:prt |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 mind | nmod:poss |
| 33 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 made | obj |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 start | mark |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 start | nsubj |
| 36 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 start | aux |
| 37 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 made | advcl |
| 38 | out | out | ADP | _ | 37 start | compound:prt |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 learn | cc |
| 40 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 start | conj |
| 41 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 43 become | nsubj |
| 42 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 become | aux |
| 43 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 40 learn | acl:relcl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 him | case |
| 45 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 become | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not come back | past · do-support | arrows = arrow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | feel | past | boy | lonesome property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | fear | to-infinitive | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 5 | happen | would | something | to boy's young brother | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | make up | past | boy | boy's mind | last | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | |||
| 7 | start out | would | boy | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 8 | learn | infinitive | boy not said here | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | become | past · perfect | of boy; what nsubj | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 10 | mind | boy | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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