The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 22
After she had finished it, she waited until her man had gone out on his journey, and then put her child on her back and went to the hole, carrying the rope of sinew.
Who acts: wife, man · What happens: finish, wait, go out, put, go, carry · To what, where: rope, journey, child, back, hole
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, man), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 finished | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 finished | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | aux |
| 4 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 waited | advcl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 finished | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 finished | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 waited | nsubj |
| 8 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 13 gone | mark |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 man | nmod:poss |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gone | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 gone | aux |
| 13 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 waited | advcl |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 gone | compound:prt |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 journey | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 journey | nmod:poss |
| 17 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gone | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 put | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 put | cc |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 put | advmod |
| 21 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 waited | conj |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 child | nmod:poss |
| 23 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 put | obj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 back | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 back | nmod:poss |
| 26 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 put | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 went | cc |
| 28 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 waited | conj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 hole | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 hole | det |
| 31 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 went | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 carrying | punct |
| 33 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 went | advcl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 rope | det |
| 35 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 carrying | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 sinew | case |
| 37 | sinew | sinew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 rope | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect | wife | rope | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | wait | past | wife | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go out | past · perfect | wife's man | man's journey | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | put | infinitive | wife not said here | wife's child | wife's back | then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme on back=Destination | ||
| 5 | go | past | wife not said here | the hole | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hole=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | carry | gerund | wife not said here | the rope of sinew | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Theme | ||||
| 7 | journey | man | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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