The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 72

The Star Boy laughed at it, and walked up to it and tapped it on the head with his bow.

Who acts: Star Boy · What happens: laugh, walk up, tap · To what, where: timber, head

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 (Star Boy), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Boy	det
2	Star	Star	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Boy	compound
3	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 walked	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 walked	cc
9	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laughed	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 walked	compound:prt
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 walked	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tapped	cc
14	tapped	tap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laughed	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tapped	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 head	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 head	det
18	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tapped	obl
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 bow	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 bow	nmod:poss
21	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tapped	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	the Star Boy		timber		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	walk up	past	the Star Boy not said here		timber		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to it=Destination
3	tap	past	the Star Boy not said here	timber	the head	with boy's bow	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with bow=Instrument

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 72

The tree

Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 72