The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 3
One of the girls saw a bright star, and pointed to it and said: “I like that one best of all.
Who acts: girls · What happens: see, point, say, like · To what, where: One, sky · 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 (girls), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 saw | obl |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 girls | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girls | det |
| 4 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 star | det |
| 7 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 star | amod |
| 8 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pointed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 pointed | cc |
| 11 | pointed | point | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 saw | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 pointed | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 like | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 like | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 like | nsubj |
| 19 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 one | det |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 like | obj |
| 22 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 one | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 all | case |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 best | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the girls | One | a bright star obj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer star=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | point | participle | the girls not said here | sky | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to it=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the girls not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | like in a quote | present | the girls = girl | that one best of all | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot one=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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