The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 55

He stayed hidden there until the little Star Boy came back; then he walked up to him.

Who acts: boy, little Star Boy · What happens: stay, hide, come back, walk up · To what, where: husband

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 (boy, little Star 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stayed	nsubj
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 there	amod
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 stayed	advmod
5	until	until	SCONJ	_	10 came	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Boy	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Boy	amod
8	Star	Star	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Boy	compound
9	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stayed	advcl
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 walked	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 walked	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 walked	nsubj
15	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stayed	conj
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 walked	compound:prt
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 walked	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	stay	past	boy		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hide	participle					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come back	past	the little Star Boy				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	walk up	past	boy	husband		then	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result

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 55

The tree

Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 55