The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 62

One day she said to the boys: “My sons, you must never go over there to that place where the timber grows thick.

Who acts: woman, sons, timber · What happens: say, not go over, grow · To what, where: boys · 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 (woman, sons, timber), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl:unmarked
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 boys	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boys	det
7	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 sons	punct
10	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 sons	nmod:poss
11	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 go	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sons	punct
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 go	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 go	aux
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 go	advmod
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
17	over	over	ADV	_	18 there	advmod
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 go	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 place	case
20	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 place	det
21	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 go	obl
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	25 grows	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 timber	det
24	timber	timber	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 grows	nsubj
25	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 place	acl:relcl
26	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 grows	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	woman	the boys		day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to boy=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not go over in a quote	must	My sons		there		to that place; you nsubj	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
3	grow in a quote	present	the timber				thick property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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 62

The tree

Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 62