The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 95
Soon after this the Star Boy said to his playmate: “Brother, let us go over to that hill where the snakes live.
Who acts: Star Boy, Brother, us, snakes · What happens: say, let, go over, live · To what, where: playmate, 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 (Star Boy, Brother, us, snakes), 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 | 7 said | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 this | case |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Soon | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Boy | det |
| 5 | Star | Star | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Boy | compound |
| 6 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 playmate | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 playmate | nmod:poss |
| 10 | playmate | playmate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 let | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 let | punct |
| 13 | Brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 let | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Brother | punct |
| 15 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 let | obj |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 let | xcomp |
| 18 | over | over | ADV | _ | 17 go | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 hill | case |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 hill | det |
| 21 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 go | obl |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 live | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 snakes | det |
| 24 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 live | nsubj |
| 25 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 hill | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Star Boy | boy's playmate | soon property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to playmate=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | Brother | us | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go over in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | to that hill; over property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | live in a quote | present | the snakes | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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