The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay Visits the Ghosts, sentence 64

After the trout were roasted and the people were eating them, the boy talked a great deal, saying: “He threw out of the canoe all that he had caught.

Who acts: people, boy · What happens: roast, eat, talk, say, throw, catch · To what, where: trout, branches, great deal, canoe, boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Bluejay Visits the Ghosts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	5 roasted	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 trout	det
3	trout	trout	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 roasted	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 roasted	aux:pass
5	roasted	roast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 talked	advcl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 eating	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 people	det
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 eating	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 eating	aux
10	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 roasted	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 eating	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 roasted	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 boy	det
14	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 talked	nsubj
15	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 deal	det
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 deal	amod
18	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 talked	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 saying	punct
20	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 talked	parataxis
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 threw	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 threw	punct
23	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 threw	nsubj
24	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 talked	parataxis
25	out	out	ADP	_	28 canoe	case
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 canoe	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 canoe	det
28	canoe	canoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 threw	obl
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 caught	det:predet
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 caught	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 caught	nsubj:pass
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 caught	aux
33	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 threw	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	roast	past · passive		the trout		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	eat	past · progressive	the people	branches = branch		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	talk	past	the boy	a great deal		tree rules
4	say speech: assert	gerund				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	throw in a quote	past	boy		the canoe	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent out canoe=Initial_Location
6	catch in a quote	past · perfect · passive		boy		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay Visits the Ghosts, sentence 64