The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 80

Soon after this, one day when they were out hunting little birds and had got away from the lodge, the Star Boy said, “Brother, let us go over to that place where grandmother told us not to go.

Who acts: fathers, Star Boy, Brother, us, grandmother · What happens: hunt, get away, say, let, go over, tell · To what, where: little birds, 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 (fathers, Star Boy, Brother, us), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 hunting	advmod
2	after	after	ADP	_	3 this	case
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 Soon	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Soon	punct
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 day	nummod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hunting	obl:unmarked
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 hunting	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hunting	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 hunting	aux
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 were	compound:prt
11	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 said	advcl
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 birds	amod
13	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hunting	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 got	cc
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 got	aux
16	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 hunting	conj
17	away	away	ADV	_	16 got	advmod
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 lodge	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 lodge	det
20	lodge	lodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 away	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hunting	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Boy	det
23	Star	Star	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Boy	compound
24	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 said	nsubj
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 let	punct
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 let	punct
28	Brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 let	nsubj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Brother	punct
30	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 said	ccomp
31	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 let	obj
32	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 let	xcomp
33	over	over	ADV	_	32 go	advmod
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 place	case
35	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 place	det
36	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 go	obl
37	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	39 told	advmod
38	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 told	nsubj
39	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 place	acl:relcl
40	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 told	iobj
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 go	advmod
42	to	to	PART	_	43 go	mark
43	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 told	xcomp
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	past · progressive	fathers = father	little birds		day	soon property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
2	get away	past · perfect	fathers = father not said here				away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the Star Boy					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	let in a quote	infinitive	Brother	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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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 80