The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 115

His relations, when they found out who the Star Boy was, wanted him to come and live with them, but for a long time he would not do so.

Who acts: relations, boy · What happens: find out, be, come, live, not do · 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 (relations, 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 relations	nmod:poss
2	relations	relation	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 found	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 found	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 found	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 found	nsubj
6	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 found	compound:prt
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 wanted	nsubj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Boy	det
10	Star	Star	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Boy	compound
11	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 wanted	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 wanted	cop
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wanted	punct
14	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 found	ccomp
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wanted	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 come	mark
17	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 wanted	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 live	cc
19	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 come	conj
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 live	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 do	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 do	cc
24	for	for	ADP	_	27 time	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 time	det
26	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 time	amod
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 do	obl
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 do	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 do	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 do	advmod
31	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 found	conj
32	so	so	ADV	_	31 do	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	find out	past	boy's relations			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is	past			who nsubj; the Star Boy nsubj; boy obj; want property	tree rules
3	come not said to happen	to-infinitive				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	live	infinitive			with relations = relation	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with they=Location
5	not do	would	boy	time		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 tree

Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 115