The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 191
He said: “My son, to-morrow the chief of the tribe is going to ask you to take his daughter for your wife, but you must not do this yet.
Who acts: man, son, you · What happens: say, go, ask, take, not do · To what, where: you, daughter, this · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, son, you), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 going | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 going | punct |
| 5 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 going | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 morrow | punct |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 morrow | case |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 to | punct |
| 10 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 going | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 chief | det |
| 12 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 going | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 tribe | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tribe | det |
| 15 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 chief | nmod |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 going | aux |
| 17 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 said | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 ask | mark |
| 19 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 going | xcomp |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 ask | iobj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 take | mark |
| 22 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 ask | xcomp |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 24 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 take | obj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 wife | case |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 wife | nmod:poss |
| 27 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 take | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 do | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 do | cc |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 do | nsubj |
| 31 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 do | aux |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 do | advmod |
| 33 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 34 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 do | obj |
| 35 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 33 do | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | present · progressive | My son | to morrow; the chief of the tribe nsubj | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | to-infinitive | My son not said here | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | take not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | My son not said here | man's daughter | for your wife | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme for wife=Beneficiary | |||
| 5 | not do in a quote | must | you | this | yet | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
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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