The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 42
One day the little boy went into the corn patch and saw there the footprints of a little child.
Who acts: little boy · What happens: go, see · To what, where: corn patch, footprints
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 (little 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boy | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 boy | amod |
| 5 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 patch | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 patch | det |
| 9 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 patch | compound |
| 10 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 saw | cc |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 saw | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 footprints | det |
| 15 | footprints | footprint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 saw | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 child | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 child | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 child | amod |
| 19 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 footprints | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the little boy | the corn patch | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into patch=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | see | past | the little boy not said here | the footprints of a little child | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer footprint=Stimulus |
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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