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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 128

He was now obliged to put off his departure, for he had to learn the hundred songs and the many prayers that went with his gift.

Who acts: Robe, many prayers · What happens: oblige, put off, have, learn, go, depart · To what, where: Robe, departure, hundred songs

This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Beaver Stick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Robe, many prayers), 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

nsubjaux:passadvmodmarkxcompcompound:prtnmod:possobjpunctcasensubjconjmarkxcompdetnummodobjccdetamodconjnsubjacl:relclcasenmod:possoblpunctrootHePRONwasAUXnowADVobligedVERBtoPARTputVERBoffADPhisPRONdepartureNOUN,PUNCTforADPhePRONhadVERBtoPARTlearnVERBtheDEThundredNUMsongsNOUNandCCONJtheDETmanyADJprayersNOUNthatPRONwentVERBwithADPhisPRONgiftNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 obligednsubj
2wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 obligedaux:pass
3nownowADVPronType=Dem4 obligedadvmod
4obligedobligeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
5totoPART_6 putmark
6putputVERBVerbForm=Inf4 obligedxcomp
7offoffADP_6 putcompound:prt
8hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs9 departurenmod:poss
9departuredepartureNOUNNumber=Sing6 putobj
10,,PUNCT_13 hadpunct
11forforADP_13 hadcase
12hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs13 hadnsubj
13hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 obligedconj
14totoPART_15 learnmark
15learnlearnVERBVerbForm=Inf13 hadxcomp
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 hundreddet
17hundredhundredNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card18 songsnummod
18songssongNOUNNumber=Plur15 learnobj
19andandCCONJ_22 prayerscc
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 prayersdet
21manymanyADJDegree=Pos22 prayersamod
22prayersprayerNOUNNumber=Plur18 songsconj
23thatthatPRONPronType=Rel24 wentnsubj
24wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 prayersacl:relcl
25withwithADP_27 giftcase
26hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs27 giftnmod:poss
27giftgiftNOUNNumber=Sing24 wentobl
28..PUNCT_4 obligedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1obligepast · passiveRobenowvn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
2put offto-infinitiveRobe's departurevn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent departure=Goal
3havepastRobetree rules
4learnto-infinitiveRobe not said herehundred songs and the many prayersvn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Topic
5gopastthe many prayerswith Robe's giftvn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with gift=Beneficiary
6departRobenom departure «act intransitive»: poss=agent
7giftRobenom gift «possession 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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