The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 73
Now since the bear had left, the man had had no food to eat, and on his journey he found himself getting weak and growing smaller.
Who acts: man · What happens: leave, have, eat, find, get, grow · To what, where: bear, food, man, journey
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 (man), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 left | advmod |
| 2 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 6 left | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bear | det |
| 4 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 left | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 left | aux |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 had | aux |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 left | parataxis |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 food | det |
| 13 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 eat | mark |
| 15 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 food | acl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 found | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 found | cc |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 journey | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 journey | nmod:poss |
| 20 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 found | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 found | nsubj |
| 22 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 left | parataxis |
| 23 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 found | obj |
| 24 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 found | xcomp |
| 25 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 getting | xcomp |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 growing | cc |
| 27 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 getting | conj |
| 28 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 growing | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · perfect · passive | the bear | now | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past · perfect | the man | no food | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | ||||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | the man not said here | no food not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | find | past | man | man | man's journey | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 5 | get | gerund | man not said here | weak property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | grow | gerund | man not said here | small property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | journey | man | nom journey «act 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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