The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Medicine Lodge, sentence 17
When you remove that great scar from your face, come and ask me.”
Who acts: you · What happens: remove, come, ask · To what, where: great scar, face, me
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 (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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 remove | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 remove | nsubj |
| 3 | remove | remove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | advcl |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 scar | mark |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 scar | amod |
| 6 | scar | scar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remove | xcomp |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 face | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 face | nmod:poss |
| 9 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remove | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ask | cc |
| 13 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | conj |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 ask | iobj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remove | present | you | great scar | your face | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from face=Source | |||
| 2 | come | imperative | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | you not said here | me | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
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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