The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 134

When he reached the shore he knelt down in the grass and cried, cried long and bitterly, for he felt very sad to leave the kind beavers.

Who acts: power · What happens: reach, kneel down, cry, feel, leave · To what, where: shore, grass, kind beavers

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 (power), 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	7 knelt	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shore	det
5	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 knelt	nsubj
7	knelt	kneel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 knelt	compound:prt
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 grass	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 grass	det
11	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 knelt	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cried	cc
13	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 knelt	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cried	punct
15	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 cried	conj
16	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 cried	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 bitterly	cc
18	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	16 long	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 felt	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 felt	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 felt	nsubj
22	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 cried	parataxis
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 sad	advmod
24	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 felt	xcomp
25	to	to	PART	_	26 leave	mark
26	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 sad	xcomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 beavers	det
28	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 beavers	amod
29	beavers	beaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 leave	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 knelt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	power	the shore			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent shore=Theme
2	kneel down	past	power		the grass		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in grass=Location
3	cry speech: express	past	power not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cry speech: express	past	power not said here			long property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	feel	past	power			sad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
6	leave	to-infinitive	power not said here	the kind beavers			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beaver=Theme

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, The Beaver Stick, sentence 134