The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 46
At last the old woman told her grandson to take out a flesher and a hoe and leave them in the field.
What happens: tell, take out, leave · To what, where: grandson, flesher, field · 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: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 5 woman | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | amod |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 told | obl |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 grandson | nmod:poss |
| 8 | grandson | grandson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 told | iobj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 take | mark |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 told | xcomp |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 take | compound:prt |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 flesher | det |
| 13 | flesher | flesher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hoe | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hoe | det |
| 16 | hoe | hoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flesher | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 leave | cc |
| 18 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 take | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 leave | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 field | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 field | det |
| 22 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 leave | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | woman's grandson | at the last old woman | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent grandson=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take out not said to happen | to-infinitive | a flesher and a hoe | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesher=Theme | |||||
| 3 | leave | infinitive | flesher | the field | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in field=Location |
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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