The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 110

He told her that he did not know; that he had come from above, but he remembered that his mother had told him that they did not belong up there, but down below, and that she had been taken up by a star.

Who acts: boy, people, star · What happens: tell, not know, come, remember, not belong up, take up · To what, where: grandmother, mother, boy · 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 (boy, people, star), 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	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 know	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 know	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 know	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 know	advmod
8	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	ccomp
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 come	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 come	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 come	aux
13	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 know	ccomp
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 above	case
15	above	above	ADV	_	13 come	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 remembered	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 remembered	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 remembered	nsubj
19	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	parataxis
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 told	mark
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 mother	nmod:poss
22	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 told	nsubj:pass
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 told	aux
24	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 remembered	ccomp
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 told	iobj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 belong	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 belong	nsubj
28	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 belong	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 belong	advmod
30	belong	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 told	xcomp
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 belong	compound:prt
32	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 belong	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 below	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 below	cc
35	down	down	ADV	_	36 below	advmod
36	below	below	ADV	_	19 remembered	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 taken	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 taken	cc
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 taken	mark
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 taken	nsubj
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 taken	aux
42	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	43 taken	aux:pass
43	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 remembered	conj
44	up	up	ADP	_	43 taken	compound:prt
45	by	by	ADP	_	47 star	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 star	det
47	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 taken	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	boy		grandmother			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not know	past · do-support	boy					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	come	past · perfect	boy					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from above=Initial_Location
4	remember	past	boy				below property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		boy's mother	boy			tree rules
6	not belong up not said to happen	past · do-support	people			there		vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
7	take up	past · perfect · passive	a star	grandmother				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument subject=Destination

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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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 110