The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 28
For a long time she went down, and at last she came to the end of the rope, but it did not nearly reach the ground.
Who acts: wife, rope · What happens: go down, come, not reach · To what, where: last, ground
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, rope), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 came | cc |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 last | case |
| 11 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 came | obl |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 end | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 end | det |
| 16 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 rope | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 rope | det |
| 19 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 end | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 reach | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 reach | cc |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 reach | nsubj |
| 23 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 reach | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 reach | advmod |
| 25 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 26 reach | advmod |
| 26 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 came | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 ground | det |
| 28 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 reach | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | wife | time | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | come | past | wife | last | to the end of the rope | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | not reach | past · do-support | rope | the ground | nearly property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ground=Theme |
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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