The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 50
Then the old woman said: “My son, take your bow and arrows and put them there.
Who acts: old woman, son · What happens: say, take, put · To what, where: bow · 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 (old woman, son), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 take | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 take | punct |
| 8 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 son | punct |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 bow | nmod:poss |
| 13 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 arrows | cc |
| 15 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 bow | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 put | cc |
| 17 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 take | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 put | obj |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 put | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the old woman | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | infinitive | My son | your bow and arrows | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | put in a quote | infinitive | My son not said here | bow | there | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal |
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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