The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 2

New Robe’s parents had died when he was a little child, and he was brought up by an old woman who also died before he grew up to be a man.

Who acts: parents, Robe, old woman · What happens: die, be, bring up, grow up · To what, where: little child, Robe, man

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 (parents, Robe, old woman), 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	New	New	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Robe	amod
2	Robe	Robe	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 parents	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 Robe	case
4	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 died	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 died	aux
6	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 child	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 child	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 child	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 child	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 child	amod
12	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 died	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 brought	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 brought	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 brought	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 brought	aux:pass
17	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 died	conj
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 brought	compound:prt
19	by	by	ADP	_	22 woman	case
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 woman	det
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 woman	amod
22	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 brought	obl
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 died	nsubj
24	also	also	ADV	_	25 died	advmod
25	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 woman	acl:relcl
26	before	before	SCONJ	_	28 grew	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 grew	nsubj
28	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 died	advcl
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 grew	compound:prt
30	to	to	PART	_	33 man	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 man	cop
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 man	det
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 grew	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	die	past · perfect	New Robe's parents		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	is a	past	Robe	a little child	tree rules
3	bring up	past · passive	a old woman	Robe	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
4	die	past	a old woman		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	grow up	past	Robe		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is a	to-infinitive	Robe not said here	a man	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, The Beaver Stick, sentence 2

The tree

Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 2