The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Corn, sentence 15

When he got outside of the village and had gone some distance, he heard behind him a loud rushing sound like a strong wind—the sound kept getting nearer and louder—and all at once it was above him, and then the sound stopped, and something spoke to him and said: “Well, I am here.

Who acts: man, sound, something · What happens: get, go, hear, rush, keep, be · To what, where: distance, loud rushing sound, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The First Corn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, sound, something), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 got	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 heard	advcl
4	outside	outside	ADV	_	3 got	advmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 village	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 village	det
7	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gone	cc
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gone	aux
10	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 got	conj
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 distance	det
12	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gone	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 heard	nsubj
15	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	behind	behind	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 heard	obl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 sound	det
19	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 sound	amod
20	rushing	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 sound	amod
21	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 heard	obj
22	like	like	ADP	_	25 wind	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 wind	det
24	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 wind	amod
25	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sound	nmod
26	—	-	PUNCT	_	29 kept	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sound	det
28	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 kept	nsubj
29	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 heard	conj
30	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 kept	xcomp
31	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 getting	xcomp
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 louder	cc
33	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 nearer	conj
34	—	-	PUNCT	_	42 him	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 him	cc
36	all	all	ADV	_	42 him	advmod
37	at	at	ADP	_	42 him	case
38	once	once	SCONJ	_	42 him	mark
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 him	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 him	cop
41	above	above	ADP	_	42 him	case
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 heard	parataxis
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 stopped	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 stopped	cc
45	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	48 stopped	advmod
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 sound	det
47	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 stopped	nsubj
48	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 heard	parataxis
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 spoke	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 spoke	cc
51	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	52 spoke	nsubj
52	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 stopped	conj
53	to	to	ADP	_	54 him	case
54	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 spoke	obl
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 said	cc
56	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 stopped	conj
57	:	:	PUNCT	_	63 here	punct
58	“	"	PUNCT	_	63 here	punct
59	Well	well	INTJ	_	63 here	discourse
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 Well	punct
61	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	63 here	nsubj
62	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	63 here	cop
63	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	56 said	ccomp
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	man				of the village; outside property	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme of village=Destination
2	go	past · perfect	man not said here	some distance				vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location distance=Theme
3	hear	past	man	a loud rushing sound			behind father; like a strong wind	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus
4	rush	gerund						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	keep	past	the sound					tree rules
6	get	gerund	the sound not said here				near property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
7	is	past	sound				at father; all property	tree rules
8	stop	past	the sound			then		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
9	speak speech: other	past	something		man			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent
10	say speech: assert	past	the sound not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
11	is in a quote	present	the sound = sound				here property	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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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Corn, sentence 15