The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 59

Near the old man sat his wife, a handsome old woman, and on other beds reclined their two sons, one of whom had guided New Robe to the place.

Who acts: old man · What happens: sit, recline, guide · To what, where: wife, two sons, other beds, New Robe, place

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 (old man), 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	Near	near	ADP	_	4 man	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	nsubj
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wife	nmod:poss
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 woman	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 woman	det
10	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 woman	amod
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 woman	amod
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wife	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 reclined	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 reclined	cc
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 beds	case
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 beds	amod
17	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 reclined	obl
18	reclined	recline	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	conj
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 sons	nmod:poss
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 sons	nummod
21	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 reclined	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 one	punct
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 sons	appos
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 whom	case
25	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 one	nmod
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 guided	aux
27	guided	guide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 whom	acl:relcl
28	New	New	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 Robe	amod
29	Robe	Robe	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 guided	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 place	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 place	det
32	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 guided	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	sit	past	the old man	man's wife and a handsome old woman		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wife=Theme
2	recline	past	the old man not said here	beds's two sons	other beds	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent son=Theme on bed=Destination
3	guide	past · perfect		New Robe	the place	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent robe=Theme to place=Destination

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 59