The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 146

When they had come near enough to hear his voice—for he kept his face covered—he told them to stand where they were, and asked them to go and tell the father of Raven Woman that he was New Robe, returned from strange adventures, and with a powerful medicine.

Who acts: occupants, man, face · What happens: come, hear, keep, cover, tell, stand · To what, where: voice, occupants, father, New Robe, strange adventures · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (occupants, man, face), 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	ADV	PronType=Int	4 come	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	near	near	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	enough	enough	ADV	_	5 near	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 hear	mark
8	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	advcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 voice	nmod:poss
10	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hear	obj
11	—	-	PUNCT	_	14 kept	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 kept	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 kept	nsubj
14	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 come	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 face	nmod:poss
16	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 covered	nsubj
17	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 kept	ccomp
18	—	-	PUNCT	_	20 told	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 told	nsubj
20	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 kept	advcl
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 told	iobj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 stand	mark
23	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 told	xcomp
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 were	advmod
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 were	nsubj
26	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 stand	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 asked	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 asked	cc
29	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 told	conj
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 asked	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 go	mark
32	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 asked	xcomp
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 tell	cc
34	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 go	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 father	det
36	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 tell	iobj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 Woman	case
38	Raven	Raven	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Woman	compound
39	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 father	nmod
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 Robe	mark
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 Robe	nsubj
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 Robe	cop
43	New	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 Robe	amod
44	Robe	Robe	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 tell	ccomp
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 returned	punct
46	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 asked	conj
47	from	from	ADP	_	49 adventures	case
48	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 adventures	amod
49	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 returned	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 medicine	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 medicine	cc
52	with	with	ADP	_	55 medicine	case
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 medicine	det
54	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 medicine	amod
55	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kept	parataxis
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past · perfect	occupants = occupant				near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hear	to-infinitive	occupants = occupant not said here	man's voice				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
3	keep	past	man				a powerful medicine parataxis	tree rules
4	cover	past	man's face					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	past	man		occupants = occupant			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
6	stand not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	be	past	occupants = occupant					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	ask speech: ask	past	man not said here		occupants = occupant			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
9	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	tell speech: assert	infinitive	man not said here		the father of Raven Woman			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient
11	is a	past	man	New Robe				tree rules
12	return	past	man not said here			strange adventures		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from adventure=Initial_Location

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 146