The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 107
They had left their people because they were poor and had no horses, and the others in the camp did not take care of them.
Who acts: people, others · What happens: leave, be, have, not take · To what, where: people, horses, care
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 (people, others), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | aux |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 people | nmod:poss |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 left | obj |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 poor | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 poor | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 poor | cop |
| 9 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 left | advcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 had | cc |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | conj |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 horses | det |
| 13 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 had | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 take | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 take | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 others | det |
| 17 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 take | nsubj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 camp | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 camp | det |
| 20 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 others | nmod |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 take | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 take | advmod |
| 23 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 had | conj |
| 24 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 take | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 take | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · perfect | people | people's people | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | people | poor property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | past | people not said here | no horses | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not take | past · do-support | the others in the camp | care | of people | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of they=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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