The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 66
Not long after that the little Star Boy said, “Let us go out and kill little birds.”
Who acts: little Star Boy, us · What happens: say, let, go out, kill · To what, where: us, little birds · 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 Star Boy, us), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 said | advmod |
| 3 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 9 said | mark |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 said | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Boy | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Boy | amod |
| 7 | Star | Star | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Boy | compound |
| 8 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Let | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Let | punct |
| 12 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 Let | obj |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 Let | xcomp |
| 15 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 go | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 kill | cc |
| 17 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 Let | conj |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 birds | amod |
| 19 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 kill | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the little Star Boy | long property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go out in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | kill in a quote | infinitive | little birds | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=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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