The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Corn, sentence 63
The next day they went out as he had told them, and the young man sent two boys to the top of a high hill close to camp, and told them to let him know what they saw from it.
Who acts: people, man, young man · What happens: go out, tell, send, let, know, see · To what, where: people, two boys, top, man, camp · 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 (people, man, 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 | 5 went | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 went | compound:prt |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 told | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 told | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 told | aux |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 went | parataxis |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 told | iobj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sent | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sent | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 15 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sent | nsubj |
| 17 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 boys | nummod |
| 19 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sent | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 top | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 top | det |
| 22 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sent | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 hill | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 hill | det |
| 25 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 hill | amod |
| 26 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 top | nmod |
| 27 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 hill | amod |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 camp | case |
| 29 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 close | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 told | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 told | cc |
| 32 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 told | iobj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 let | mark |
| 35 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 told | xcomp |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 let | obj |
| 37 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 let | xcomp |
| 38 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 40 saw | obj |
| 39 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 saw | nsubj |
| 40 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 know | ccomp |
| 41 | from | from | ADP | _ | 42 it | case |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 saw | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | people | day | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect | man | people | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | send | past | the young man | two boys | the top of a high hill | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent boy=Theme to top=Destination | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | people not said here | people | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | let not said to happen | to-infinitive | people not said here | man | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | know | infinitive | man not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | see | past | people | camp | what obj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
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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