The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Corn, sentence 52
The next day after he got back, the young man sent out an old man to go through the camp and call all the people to come to his father’s lodge.
Who acts: end, young man · What happens: get back, send out, go, call, come · To what, where: next day, old man, camp, people, lodge · 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 (end, young man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sent | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 6 got | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 got | nsubj |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 day | acl:relcl |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 got | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sent | nsubj |
| 12 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 sent | compound:prt |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sent | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 go | mark |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 sent | advcl |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 camp | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 camp | det |
| 21 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 go | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 call | cc |
| 23 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 go | conj |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 people | det:predet |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 people | det |
| 26 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 call | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 come | mark |
| 28 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 call | advcl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 lodge | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 father | nmod:poss |
| 31 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 lodge | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 31 father | case |
| 33 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 come | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get back | past | end | the next day not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer day=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | send out | participle | the young man | a old man | day | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | |||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | the young man not said here | the camp | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through camp=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | call | infinitive | the young man not said here | all people | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | come | to-infinitive | the young man not said here | man's father's lodge | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lodge=Initial_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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