The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Medicine Lodge, sentence 16
She looked at him in scorn and said: “Do you think I would marry such an ugly person as you?
Who acts: girl, you · What happens: look, say, think, marry · To what, where: scorn, ugly person · 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 (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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 scorn | case |
| 6 | scorn | scorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 think | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 think | punct |
| 11 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 think | aux |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 think | nsubj |
| 13 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 marry | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 marry | aux |
| 16 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 think | ccomp |
| 17 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 person | det:predet |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 person | det |
| 19 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 person | amod |
| 20 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 marry | obj |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 you | case |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 marry | obl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | girl | scorn | at Scarface | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | girl not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | marry in a quote | would | girl | such ugly person | as you | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=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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