The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 96
The old man and the two sons went out to look about and inspect the dam, leaving New Robe and the old woman inside.
Who acts: old man · What happens: go out, look, inspect, leave · To what, where: dam, New Robe
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sons | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sons | det |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 sons | nummod |
| 7 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 man | conj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 look | mark |
| 11 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 went | advcl |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 look | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 inspect | cc |
| 14 | inspect | inspect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 look | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dam | det |
| 16 | dam | dam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 inspect | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 leaving | punct |
| 18 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 inspect | advcl |
| 19 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Robe | amod |
| 20 | Robe | Robe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 leaving | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 woman | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 woman | det |
| 23 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 woman | amod |
| 24 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 leaving | conj |
| 25 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 24 woman | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | the old man and the two sons | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | the old man and the two sons not said here | about property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | inspect | infinitive | the old man and the two sons not said here | the dam | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dam=Theme | ||||
| 4 | leave | gerund | the old man and the two sons not said here | New Robe | the old woman conj | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robe=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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