The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 30

She clung to the rope, crying, for she was afraid to let go and no one came to help her, for there was no one near to hear.

Who acts: wife, one · What happens: cling, cry, be, let, go, come · 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, one), 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 clung	nsubj
2	clung	cling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 rope	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rope	det
5	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 clung	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 crying	punct
7	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 clung	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 afraid	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 afraid	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 afraid	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 afraid	cop
12	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 clung	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	14 let	mark
14	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 afraid	xcomp
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 let	xcomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 came	cc
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 one	det
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 afraid	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 help	mark
21	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 came	xcomp
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 help	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 was	punct
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 was	mark
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 was	expl
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 hear	cop
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 one	det
28	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 was	nsubj
29	near	near	ADV	_	31 hear	advmod
30	to	to	PART	_	31 hear	mark
31	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 clung	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 clung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	cling	past	wife		to the rope	vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to rope=Co-Theme
2	cry speech: express	gerund	wife not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	wife		afraid property	tree rules
4	let	to-infinitive	wife not said here			tree rules
5	go	infinitive	wife not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	come	past	no one			tree rules
7	help	to-infinitive	no one not said here	wife		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary
8	is	past	wife not said here		hear, near property	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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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 30