The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 39

Every now and then he would start to go off somewhere, and would go a little way, and then would come back to his mother and try to rouse her; but she was dead.

Who acts: boy, woman · What happens: start, go off, go, come back, try, rouse · To what, where: little way, woman

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 (boy, woman), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 start	det
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 start	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 start	cc
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 start	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 start	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 start	aux
7	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 go	mark
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 start	xcomp
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 go	compound:prt
11	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 go	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 go	cc
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 go	aux
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 start	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 way	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 way	amod
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 go	obl:unmarked
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 come	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 come	cc
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 come	advmod
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 come	aux
23	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 go	parataxis
24	back	back	ADV	_	23 come	advmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 mother	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 mother	nmod:poss
27	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 come	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 try	cc
29	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 come	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 rouse	mark
31	rouse	rouse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 try	xcomp
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 rouse	obj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 dead	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 dead	cc
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 dead	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 dead	cop
37	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 start	parataxis
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 start	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	start	would	boy		now; then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	go off	to-infinitive	boy not said here			somewhere property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
3	go	would	boy not said here	a little way			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come back	would			then	to boy's mother	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mother=Initial_Location
5	try	infinitive					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	rouse not said to happen	to-infinitive		woman			vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
7	is	past	woman			dead 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 39