The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 10
He would comb his hair and paint his face red, and then start out to travel.
Who acts: man · What happens: comb, paint, start out, travel · To what, where: hair, face
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Star Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 comb | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 comb | aux |
| 3 | comb | comb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hair | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comb | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 paint | cc |
| 7 | paint | paint | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 comb | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 face | nmod:poss |
| 9 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 paint | obj |
| 10 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 paint | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 start | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 start | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 start | advmod |
| 14 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 comb | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 start | compound:prt |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 travel | mark |
| 17 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 start | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 comb | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | comb | would | man | man's hair | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | ||||
| 2 | paint | infinitive | man not said here | man's face | red property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent face=Destination | |||
| 3 | start out | infinitive | man not said here | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | travel | to-infinitive | man not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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