The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 40
The fourth day he started to go off a long way, and as he was going along he came to a patch of corn and squashes, and he walked among the corn and pulled some ears and ate them.
Who acts: boy · What happens: start, go off, go along, come, squash, walk · To what, where: long way, patch, corn, ears
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 started | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 started | nsubj |
| 5 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 started | xcomp |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 go | compound:prt |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 way | det |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 way | amod |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 going | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 going | cc |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 going | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 going | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 going | aux |
| 17 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 started | advcl |
| 18 | along | along | ADP | _ | 20 came | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 going | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 patch | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 patch | det |
| 23 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 corn | case |
| 25 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 patch | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 squashes | cc |
| 27 | squashes | squash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 came | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 walked | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 walked | cc |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 walked | nsubj |
| 31 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 started | parataxis |
| 32 | among | among | ADP | _ | 34 corn | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 corn | det |
| 34 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 walked | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 pulled | cc |
| 36 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 walked | conj |
| 37 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 38 ears | det |
| 38 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 pulled | obj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 ate | cc |
| 40 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 pulled | conj |
| 41 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 ate | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | boy | day | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | go off | to-infinitive | boy not said here | a long way | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go along | past · progressive | boy | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come | past | boy | a patch of corn | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to patch=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | squash | present | boy not said here | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | walk | past | boy | the corn | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among corn=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | pull | past | boy not said here | some ears | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme | ||||
| 8 | eat | past | boy not said here | ears = ear | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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