The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 35
When he comes in he will tell you to put it down, but do not do so.
Who acts: latter · What happens: come, tell, put down, not do · To what, where: you, noise · 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 (latter), 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 comes | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 comes | nsubj |
| 3 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 tell | advcl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 he | case |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 tell | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 tell | aux |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 tell | iobj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 put | mark |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tell | xcomp |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 put | obj |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 put | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 do | cc |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 do | advmod |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tell | conj |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 do | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | latter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | future | latter | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | put down not said to happen | to-infinitive | latter not said here | noise | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | ||||
| 4 | not do | infinitive · do-support | latter not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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