The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 11
One day the boys went out to get wood for arrows, and left the girl in the lodge alone.
Who acts: boys · What happens: go out, get, leave · To what, where: wood, girl, lodge
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boys | det |
| 4 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 get | mark |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 went | advcl |
| 9 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 arrows | case |
| 11 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 get | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 left | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 left | cc |
| 14 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 girl | det |
| 16 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 left | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 lodge | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 lodge | det |
| 19 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 left | obl |
| 20 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 14 left | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | the boys | day | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | the boys not said here | wood | for arrows | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent wood=Theme for arrow=Source | |||
| 3 | leave | past | the boys not said here | the girl | the lodge | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent girl=Theme in lodge=Location |
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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