The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 53

When the little boy next went back to the corn patch after leaving the bow and arrows, they were gone.

Who acts: little boy, bow · What happens: go back, leave, be · To what, where: bow

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, bow), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boy	amod
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	nsubj
5	next	next	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 gone	advcl
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 patch	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 patch	det
10	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 patch	compound
11	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
12	after	after	SCONJ	_	13 leaving	mark
13	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 went	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bow	det
15	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 leaving	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 arrows	cc
17	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 bow	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 gone	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 gone	cop
21	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go back	past	the little boy		to the corn patch result; next property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to patch=Result
2	leave	gerund	the little boy not said here	the bow and arrows		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme
3	is	past	bow		gone property	tree rules

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 tree

Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 53