The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 74

When he reached the cliff there was no camp there, so he waited, and all the time he kept getting weaker, and smaller and smaller, until he was no bigger than a year-old child.

Who acts: man · What happens: reach, be, wait, keep, get, not be · To what, where: cliff

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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 reached	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 waited	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cliff	det
5	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obj
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 was	expl
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cliff	cop
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 camp	det
9	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 was	nsubj
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 was	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 waited	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 waited	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 waited	nsubj
14	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 kept	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 kept	cc
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 time	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 time	det
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 kept	obl:unmarked
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 kept	nsubj
21	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 waited	conj
22	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 kept	xcomp
23	weaker	weak	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 getting	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 smaller	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 smaller	cc
26	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 waited	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 smaller	cc
28	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 smaller	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 bigger	punct
30	until	until	SCONJ	_	34 bigger	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 bigger	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 bigger	cop
33	no	no	ADV	_	34 bigger	advmod
34	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 smaller	conj
35	than	than	ADP	_	40 child	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 child	det
37	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 old	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 year	punct
39	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 child	amod
40	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bigger	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past	man				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past		the cliff			tree rules
3	wait	past	man				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	keep	past	man		time		tree rules
5	get	gerund	man not said here			weak property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	not is	past	man			than a old child; big 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 74