The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 48

The little boy did as she had said, and left the things there, but when the strange child came he did not take them.

Who acts: little boy, woman, strange child, boy · What happens: do, say, leave, come, not take · To what, where: things · 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: who acts (little boy, woman, strange child, 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 boy	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 said	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	aux
8	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 did	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 left	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 left	cc
11	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 things	det
13	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 left	obj
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 left	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 came	cc
17	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 came	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 child	det
19	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 child	amod
20	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	conj
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 take	nsubj
23	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 take	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 take	advmod
25	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 came	ccomp
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 take	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past	the little boy			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past · perfect	woman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	leave	past	the little boy not said here	the things	there	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
4	come	past	the strange child			tree rules
5	not take	past · do-support	boy	things = thing		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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 48

The tree

Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 48