The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 85
The boys skinned it and took it home and stuffed it with grass and stood it up in the lodge.
Who acts: boys · What happens: skin, take, stuff, stand up · To what, where: panther, lodge
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boys | det |
| 2 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 skinned | nsubj |
| 3 | skinned | skin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 skinned | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 took | cc |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 skinned | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 took | obj |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 took | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 stuffed | cc |
| 10 | stuffed | stuff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 skinned | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 stuffed | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 grass | case |
| 13 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stuffed | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stood | cc |
| 15 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 skinned | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stood | obj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 stood | compound:prt |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 lodge | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 lodge | det |
| 20 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stood | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 skinned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | skin | past | the boys | panther | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the boys not said here | panther | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | stuff | past | the boys not said here | panther | with grass | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with grass=Theme | |||
| 4 | stand up | past | the boys not said here | panther | the lodge | 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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