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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 went | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 got | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 got | cc |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 got | advmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 got | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 got | aux |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 went | parataxis |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 distance | det |
| 11 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 lodge | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lodge | det |
| 14 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 distance | nmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 lodge | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Brother | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Brother | punct |
| 19 | Brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 let | punct |
| 21 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 got | advcl |
| 22 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 let | obj |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 let | xcomp |
| 24 | over | over | ADV | _ | 23 go | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 place | case |
| 26 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 place | det |
| 27 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 go | obl |
| 28 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 told | advmod |
| 29 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 told | nsubj |
| 30 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 place | acl:relcl |
| 31 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 told | iobj |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 go | advmod |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 go | mark |
| 34 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 told | xcomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | birds = bird | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | get | past · perfect | birds = bird | some distance | the lodge | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent distance=Theme from lodge=Source | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | boy | Brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lodge=Topic | ||||
| 4 | let in a quote | infinitive | birds = bird not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go over in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | to that place; over property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past | grandmother | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | not go not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | grandmother not said here | vn 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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