The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 108

She said, “We will go back and try to find out where this boy came from, and whether he is a relative of any of our people there.”

Who acts: power, We, boy · What happens: say, go back, try, find out, come, be · To what, where: relative · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (power, We, boy), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct
5	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 go	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 go	aux
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 try	cc
10	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 go	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 find	mark
12	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 try	xcomp
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 find	compound:prt
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 came	advmod
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 boy	det
16	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 find	advcl
18	from	from	ADP	_	17 came	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 relative	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 relative	cc
21	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	25 relative	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 relative	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 relative	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 relative	det
25	relative	relative	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 any	case
27	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	25 relative	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 people	case
29	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 people	nmod:poss
30	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 any	nmod
31	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 people	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 relative	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 relative	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	power			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go back in a quote	future	We			vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
3	try in a quote	infinitive	We not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	find out not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	We not said here			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
5	come in a quote	past	this boy			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is a in a quote	present	boy	a relative	of any of our people	tree rules

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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Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 108