The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Medicine Lodge, sentence 112
The beautiful girl came to him and said, “You are very handsome now, and a great chief, and I will marry you.”
Who acts: beautiful girl, You · What happens: come, say, be, marry · To what, where: great chief, Scarface, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The First Medicine Lodge. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful girl, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 handsome | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 handsome | punct |
| 11 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 handsome | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 handsome | cop |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 handsome | advmod |
| 14 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 handsome | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 chief | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 chief | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 chief | det |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 chief | amod |
| 20 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 marry | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 marry | cc |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 marry | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 marry | aux |
| 25 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 came | advcl |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 marry | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 marry | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 marry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the beautiful girl | a great chief | Scarface | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the beautiful girl not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | You | now | handsome property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | marry in a quote | future | the beautiful girl = girl | you | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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