The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 77

An old woman went out to get some grass for her bed, and while she was gathering it, she heard a sound as if a little child were crying.

Who acts: old woman, woman, little child · What happens: go out, get, gather, hear, cry · To what, where: grass, sound

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 (old woman, woman, little child), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 get	mark
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 went	advcl
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 grass	det
9	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 bed	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 bed	nmod:poss
12	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 gathering	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 gathering	cc
15	while	while	SCONJ	_	18 gathering	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 gathering	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 gathering	aux
18	gathering	gather	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 went	advcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 gathering	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 heard	punct
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 heard	nsubj
22	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	parataxis
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 sound	det
24	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 heard	obj
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 crying	mark
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 crying	mark
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 child	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 child	amod
29	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 crying	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 crying	aux
31	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 heard	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go out	past	a old woman		out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get	to-infinitive	a old woman not said here	some grass	for woman's bed	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent grass=Theme for bed=Source
3	gather	past · progressive	woman	grass		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	hear	past	woman	a sound		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus
5	cry speech: express	past · progressive	a little child			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 77