The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 117
When he grew up he began to go on the war-path, and he had good luck and struck many of his enemies.
Who acts: boy · What happens: grow up, begin, go, have, strike · To what, where: war path, good luck, many
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), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 grew | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 began | advcl |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 grew | compound:prt |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 began | nsubj |
| 6 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 began | xcomp |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 path | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 path | det |
| 11 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 path | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 war | punct |
| 13 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 go | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 had | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 began | parataxis |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 luck | amod |
| 19 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 struck | cc |
| 21 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 had | conj |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 struck | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 enemies | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 enemies | nmod:poss |
| 25 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 many | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | past | boy | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | begin | past | boy | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | boy not said here | the war path | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on path=Location | ||||
| 4 | have | past | boy | good luck | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Patient | ||||
| 5 | strike | past | boy not said here | many of boy's enemies | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Patient |
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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