The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 112

Then the old woman remembered that once a girl had disappeared one night from the camp when she was sleeping on an arbor, and that this girl was the daughter of a chief.

Who acts: old woman, woman, girl · What happens: remember, disappear, sleep, be · To what, where: girl, camp, arbor, daughter · 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 (old woman, woman, girl), 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	5 remembered	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 remembered	nsubj
5	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 disappeared	mark
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 disappeared	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 girl	det
9	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 disappeared	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 disappeared	aux
11	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 remembered	ccomp
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 night	nummod
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 disappeared	obl:unmarked
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 camp	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 camp	det
16	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 disappeared	obl
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 sleeping	advmod
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sleeping	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 sleeping	aux
20	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 disappeared	advcl
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 arbor	case
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 arbor	det
23	arbor	arbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sleeping	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 daughter	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 daughter	cc
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 daughter	mark
27	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 girl	det
28	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 daughter	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 daughter	cop
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 daughter	det
31	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 remembered	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 chief	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 chief	det
34	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 daughter	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	past	the old woman			then		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	disappear	past · perfect · passive		a girl	the camp	night	once property	tree rules
3	sleep	past · progressive	woman		a arbor			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	this girl	the daughter			of a chief	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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🌲 The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 112

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Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 112