The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 4

Whenever their meat was all gone and they began to get hungry, the girl used to send her brothers into the timber to cut dogwood shoots to make arrows.

Who acts: meat, boys, girl · What happens: be, begin, get, use, send, cut · To what, where: brothers, timber, dogwood shoots, arrows

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 (meat, boys, girl), 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	Whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 gone	advmod
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 meat	nmod:poss
3	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gone	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	cop
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 gone	advmod
6	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 began	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 began	nsubj
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 get	mark
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 began	xcomp
12	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 get	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 used	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 girl	det
15	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 used	nsubj
16	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 send	mark
18	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 used	xcomp
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 brothers	nmod:poss
20	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 send	obj
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 timber	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 timber	det
23	timber	timber	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 send	obl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 cut	mark
25	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 send	advcl
26	dogwood	dogwood	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 shoots	compound
27	shoots	shoot	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 cut	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 make	mark
29	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 cut	advcl
30	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 make	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	boys's meat			all, gone, whenever property	tree rules
2	begin	past	boys = boy				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	get	to-infinitive	boys = boy not said here			hungry property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	use	past	the girl				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	send	to-infinitive	the girl not said here	girl's brothers	the timber		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme
6	cut	to-infinitive	the girl not said here	dogwood shoots			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shoot=Product
7	make	to-infinitive	the girl not said here	arrows			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset arrow=Product

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 Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 4