The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Corn, sentence 32

When they had sat down the Father spoke to the young man and said to him: “My son, I have known you for a long time and have watched you.

Who acts: waiters, Father · What happens: sit down, speak, say, know, watch · To what, where: father, son · 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 (waiters, Father), 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	4 sat	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	aux
4	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	8 spoke	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Father	det
7	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 spoke	nsubj
8	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 man	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spoke	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 spoke	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	obl
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 known	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 known	punct
19	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 son	nmod:poss
20	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 known	nsubj:pass
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 known	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 known	nsubj
23	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 known	aux
24	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 said	conj
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 known	obj
26	for	for	ADP	_	29 time	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 time	det
28	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 time	amod
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 known	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 watched	cc
31	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 watched	aux
32	watched	watch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 known	conj
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 watched	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past · perfect	waiters = waiter					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	speak speech: other	past	the Father				to the young man	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to man=Co-Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the Father not said here		father			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
4	know in a quote	present · perfect · passive		My son		time	I nsubj; you obj	tree rules
5	watch in a quote	present · perfect		father				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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, The First Corn, sentence 32