The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 83
The panther growled and looked very fierce, but the boy walked up to it and shot his little arrow at it and killed it.
Who acts: panther, boy · What happens: growl, look, walk up, shoot, kill · To what, where: panther, little arrow
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 (panther, 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 | 2 panther | det |
| 2 | panther | panther | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 growled | nsubj |
| 3 | growled | growl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 looked | cc |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 growled | conj |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 fierce | advmod |
| 7 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 looked | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 walked | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 walked | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 boy | det |
| 11 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 walked | nsubj |
| 12 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 growled | parataxis |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 walked | compound:prt |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 walked | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 shot | cc |
| 17 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 walked | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 arrow | nmod:poss |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 arrow | amod |
| 20 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shot | obj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 shot | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 killed | cc |
| 24 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 shot | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 killed | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 growled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | growl | past | the panther | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | look | past | the panther not said here | fierce property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | walk up | past | the boy | panther | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to it=Destination | ||||
| 4 | shoot | past | the boy not said here | boy's little arrow | panther | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme at it=Destination | |||
| 5 | kill | past | the boy not said here | panther | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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