The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 52
Your brother has climbed this tree and has gone out of sight, and now for three days I have stood here, waiting for him to come down.
Who acts: I, brother · What happens: climb, go out, stand, wait, come down · To what, where: brother, sight
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 (I, 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 climbed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 climbed | aux |
| 4 | climbed | climb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 tree | det |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 climbed | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gone | cc |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 gone | aux |
| 9 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 climbed | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 sight | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 sight | case |
| 12 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gone | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stood | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 stood | cc |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 days | advmod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 days | case |
| 17 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 days | nummod |
| 18 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 stood | obl |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 stood | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 stood | aux |
| 21 | stood | stand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 climbed | conj |
| 22 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 stood | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 waiting | punct |
| 24 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 stood | advcl |
| 25 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 28 come | mark |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 come | nsubj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 come | mark |
| 28 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 waiting | advcl |
| 29 | down | down | ADV | _ | 28 come | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | present · perfect · passive | Your brother | this tree obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go out | present · perfect | sight | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stand | present · perfect | I | here | day | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | wait | gerund | I not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | come down | to-infinitive | brother | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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