The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 87

When she came back they told her to go into the lodge; they said, “We have something nice for you in there.”

Who acts: grandmother, fathers, We · What happens: come back, tell, go, say, have · To what, where: grandmother, lodge, something · 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 (grandmother, fathers, We), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	advcl
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	iobj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 go	mark
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 told	xcomp
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 lodge	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lodge	det
12	lodge	lodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 go	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct
18	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 have	nsubj
19	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 said	ccomp
20	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 have	obj
21	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 something	amod
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 you	case
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 nice	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 there	case
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 have	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	come back	past	grandmother				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	fathers = father		grandmother		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	fathers = father not said here			the lodge	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into lodge=Initial_Location
4	say speech: assert	past	fathers = father				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	have in a quote	present	We	something			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient

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 tree

Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 87