The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 7

She cried, and wanted to go back to her home, but the man in whose lodge she was told her that he was the star she had said she liked, and that, as she had chosen him, he had taken her for his wife.

Who acts: She, man · What happens: cry, want, go back, tell, be, say · To what, where: that, man, her, star · 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 (She, man), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cried	nsubj
2	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wanted	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wanted	cc
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cried	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wanted	xcomp
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 home	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 home	nmod:poss
11	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 told	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 told	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 told	nsubj:pass
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 lodge	case
17	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	18 lodge	nmod:poss
18	lodge	lodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 man	nmod
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 told	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 told	aux:pass
21	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 cried	conj
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 told	iobj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 star	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 star	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 star	cop
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 star	det
27	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 told	ccomp
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 said	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 said	aux
30	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 star	acl:relcl
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 liked	nsubj
32	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 said	ccomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 that	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 that	cc
35	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 cried	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 chosen	punct
37	as	as	SCONJ	_	40 chosen	mark
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 chosen	nsubj
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 chosen	aux
40	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 cried	parataxis
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 chosen	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 taken	punct
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 taken	nsubj
44	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 taken	aux
45	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 cried	conj
46	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 taken	obj
47	for	for	ADP	_	49 wife	case
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 wife	nmod:poss
49	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 taken	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	She	that			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	want	past					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	go back not said to happen	to-infinitive				to her home result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result
4	tell speech: assert	past · passive		the man in the man in the man's lodge's lodge	her = she	she nsubj	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=Topic
5	is a	past	man	the star			tree rules
6	say speech: assert	past · perfect	she	the star not said here			tree rules
7	like	past	she				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
8	choose	past · perfect	she	man			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
9	take	past · perfect	man	her = she		for man's wife	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent she=Theme for wife=Beneficiary

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 7