The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 6
He had one son, a big boy just growing up to be a man.
Who acts: Chief, big boy · What happens: have, grow up, be · To what, where: one son, man
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, A Bluejay Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chief, big boy), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 son | nummod |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 boy | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 boy | det |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 boy | amod |
| 8 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | appos |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 growing | advmod |
| 10 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 boy | acl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 growing | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 man | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 man | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 growing | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Chief | one son | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 2 | grow up | gerund | a big boy not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | a big boy 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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