The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 103
Then the sun got hotter and hotter, and at last it was so hot it made the water boil and killed all the snakes.
Who acts: sun, last · What happens: get, be, make, kill · To what, where: water boil, snakes
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 (sun, last), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sun | det |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | hotter | hot | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 got | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 hotter | cc |
| 7 | hotter | hot | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 hotter | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hot | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hot | cc |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 last | case |
| 11 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hot | nsubj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 last | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 hot | cop |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 hot | advmod |
| 15 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 made | nsubj |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 hot | ccomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 boil | det |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 boil | compound |
| 20 | boil | boil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 killed | cc |
| 22 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 made | conj |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 snakes | det:predet |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 snakes | det |
| 25 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 killed | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the sun | then | hot property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | is | past | last sun | hot property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | past | sun | the water boil | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material boil=Product | ||||
| 4 | kill | past | sun not said here | all snakes | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=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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