The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 18
She looked at them and looked at them for a long time, and then suddenly she felt that she wanted to go back to where she had come from, and wanted again to see her people—the Pawnees.
Who acts: wife · What happens: look, feel, want, go back, come, see · To what, where: wife
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 (wife), 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 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 looked | cc |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 looked | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 time | amod |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looked | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 felt | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 felt | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 felt | advmod |
| 16 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 18 felt | advmod |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 felt | nsubj |
| 18 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 wanted | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 wanted | nsubj |
| 21 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 felt | ccomp |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 go | mark |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 wanted | xcomp |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 go | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 29 come | mark |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 come | advmod |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 come | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 come | aux |
| 29 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 go | advcl |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 come | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 wanted | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 wanted | cc |
| 33 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 34 | again | again | ADV | _ | 33 wanted | advmod |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 see | mark |
| 36 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 wanted | xcomp |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 see | obj |
| 38 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 see | obj |
| 39 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 Pawnees | punct |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Pawnees | det |
| 41 | Pawnees | Pawnee | PROPN | Number=Plur | 38 people | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | wife | at girls = girl | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | past | wife not said here | time | at girls = girl | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme | |||
| 3 | feel | past | wife | then | suddenly property | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||
| 4 | want | past | wife | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | go back not said to happen | to-infinitive | wife not said here | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | come | past · perfect | wife | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | want | past | again | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | wife | people and the Pawnees obj | 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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