The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 58

On the one at the back sat a kind-looking old man, who spoke pleasantly to him and bade him take a seat by his side; and as New Robe stepped out of the pool he found that he was perfectly dry—no part of his clothing or person had been wet by the water he had passed through.

Who acts: looking old man, New Robe, Robe, water · What happens: sit, look, speak, bade, take, step out · To what, where: looking old man, man, seat, pool, part, water · 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 (looking old man, New Robe, Robe, water), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 one	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	obl
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 back	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 back	det
6	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 one	nmod
7	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 man	det
9	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 looking	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 kind	punct
11	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 man	amod
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 spoke	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 spoke	nsubj
16	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 man	acl:relcl
17	pleasantly	pleasantly	ADV	_	16 spoke	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 spoke	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 bade	cc
21	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sat	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 bade	obj
23	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 bade	xcomp
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 seat	det
25	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 take	obj
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 side	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 side	nmod:poss
28	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 take	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 found	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 found	cc
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 stepped	mark
32	New	New	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Robe	amod
33	Robe	Robe	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 stepped	nsubj
34	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 found	advcl
35	out	out	ADP	_	38 pool	case
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 pool	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 pool	det
38	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 stepped	obl
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 found	nsubj
40	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sat	conj
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 dry	mark
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 dry	nsubj
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 dry	cop
44	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	45 dry	advmod
45	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 found	ccomp
46	—	-	PUNCT	_	48 part	punct
47	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	48 part	det
48	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 wet	nsubj:pass
49	of	of	ADP	_	51 clothing	case
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 clothing	nmod:poss
51	clothing	clothing	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 part	nmod
52	or	or	CCONJ	_	53 person	cc
53	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 clothing	conj
54	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 wet	aux
55	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	56 wet	aux:pass
56	wet	wet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 dry	parataxis
57	by	by	ADP	_	59 water	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 water	det
59	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 wet	obl
60	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 passed	nsubj
61	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 passed	aux
62	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	59 water	acl:relcl
63	through	through	ADV	_	62 passed	advmod
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	sit	past		a looking old man		on the one at the back	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent man=Theme on one=Location
2	look	gerund					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	speak speech: other	past	a looking old man		man	pleasantly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent
4	bade	past		man			tree rules
5	take	infinitive		a seat		by man's side	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Theme
6	step out	past	New Robe	the pool			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location pool=Theme
7	find	past	Robe				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
8	is	past	Robe			dry, perfectly property	tree rules
9	wet	past · perfect · passive	the water	no part of Robe's clothing or person			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
10	pass through	past · perfect	Robe	the water not said here		through property	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=Trajectory

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 58