The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 77

One day after that the old woman said to the boys: “Now, boys, do not go to that thick-timbered place over there.

Who acts: old woman, boys · What happens: say, not go, timber · To what, where: boys, thick timbered place · 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 (old woman, boys), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl:unmarked
3	after	after	ADP	_	4 that	case
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 day	nmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woman	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 boys	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boys	det
11	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	obl
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 go	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 go	punct
14	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 go	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Now	punct
16	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 go	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 boys	punct
18	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 go	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 go	advmod
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
21	to	to	ADP	_	26 place	case
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 place	nsubj
23	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 place	amod
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 thick	punct
25	timbered	timber	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 place	amod
26	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 go	obl
27	over	over	ADV	_	28 there	advmod
28	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 go	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the old woman	the boys		day	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to boy=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not go in a quote	infinitive · do-support	boys		thick timbered place that; there	now	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location
3	timber in a quote	participle					tree rules

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 77

The tree

Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 77