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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 67

They went out, and when they had got some distance from the lodge he said, “Brother, let us go over to that place where grandmother told us not to go.”

Who acts: birds, boy, us, grandmother · What happens: go out, get, say, let, go over, tell · To what, where: distance, lodge, Brother, us · 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 (birds, boy, us, grandmother), 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

nsubjcompound:prtpunctccadvmodnsubjauxparataxisdetobjcasedetnmodnsubjacl:relclpunctpunctoblpunctadvclobjxcompadvmodcasedetobladvmodnsubjacl:relcliobjadvmodmarkxcomppunctpunctrootTheyPRONwentVERBoutADP,PUNCTandCCONJwhenADVtheyPRONhadAUXgotVERBsomeDETdistanceNOUNfromADPtheDETlodgeNOUNhePRONsaidVERB,PUNCT“PUNCTBrotherNOUN,PUNCTletVERBusPRONgoVERBoverADVtoADPthatDETplaceNOUNwhereADVgrandmotherNOUNtoldVERBusPRONnotPARTtoPARTgoVERB.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs2 wentnsubj
2wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3outoutADP_2 wentcompound:prt
4,,PUNCT_9 gotpunct
5andandCCONJ_9 gotcc
6whenwhenADVPronType=Int9 gotadvmod
7theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs9 gotnsubj
8hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 gotaux
9gotgetVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part2 wentparataxis
10somesomeDETPronType=Ind11 distancedet
11distancedistanceNOUNNumber=Sing9 gotobj
12fromfromADP_14 lodgecase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 lodgedet
14lodgelodgeNOUNNumber=Sing11 distancenmod
15hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 saidnsubj
16saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 lodgeacl:relcl
17,,PUNCT_19 Brotherpunct
18“"PUNCT_19 Brotherpunct
19BrotherbrotherNOUNNumber=Sing16 saidobl
20,,PUNCT_21 letpunct
21letletVERBVerbForm=Inf9 gotadvcl
22uswePRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs21 letobj
23gogoVERBVerbForm=Inf21 letxcomp
24overoverADV_23 goadvmod
25totoADP_27 placecase
26thatthatDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem27 placedet
27placeplaceNOUNNumber=Sing23 goobl
28wherewhereADVPronType=Rel30 toldadvmod
29grandmothergrandmotherNOUNNumber=Sing30 toldnsubj
30toldtellVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin27 placeacl:relcl
31uswePRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs30 toldiobj
32notnotPARTPolarity=Neg34 goadvmod
33totoPART_34 gomark
34gogoVERBVerbForm=Inf30 toldxcomp
35..PUNCT_2 wentpunct
36”"PUNCT_2 wentpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1go outpastbirds = birdvn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2getpast · perfectbirds = birdsome distancethe lodgevn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent distance=Theme from lodge=Source
3say speech: assertpastboyBrothervn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lodge=Topic
4let in a quoteinfinitivebirds = bird not said hereustree rules
5go over in a quoteinfinitiveus not said hereto that place; over propertyvn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
6tell speech: assert in a quotepastgrandmotherusvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic
7not go not said to happen, in a quoteto-infinitivegrandmother not said herevn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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