The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 54

They waited by the tree longer, but the boy did not come down, and at length the man said to the bear: “My brother is gone.

Who acts: things, boy, man, brother · What happens: wait, not come down, say, be · To what, where: bear, length · 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 (things, boy, man, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 waited	nsubj
2	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 tree	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tree	det
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waited	obl
6	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 waited	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 come	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boy	det
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 come	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 come	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 come	advmod
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 waited	conj
14	down	down	ADV	_	13 come	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 length	case
18	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	obl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 man	det
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 waited	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 bear	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bear	det
24	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	obl
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 gone	punct
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 gone	punct
27	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 brother	nmod:poss
28	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 gone	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 gone	cop
30	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 said	parataxis
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	wait	past	things = thing			by the tree; long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by tree=Location
2	not come down	past · do-support	the boy			down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the man	the bear	length		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to bear=Recipient clause=Topic
4	is in a quote	present	My brother			gone 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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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 54