The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Medicine Lodge, sentence 40
He did so, and in a short time the strange voice said, “Open your eyes and look about you.”
Who acts: voice, strange voice · What happens: do, say, open, look · To what, where: eyes · 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 (voice, strange voice), 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 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 2 did | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 8 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 time | amod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 voice | det |
| 11 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 voice | amod |
| 12 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Open | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Open | punct |
| 16 | Open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 Open | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 look | cc |
| 20 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 Open | conj |
| 21 | about | about | ADP | _ | 22 you | case |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 look | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | voice | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the strange voice | time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | open in a quote | infinitive | your eyes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | |||||
| 4 | look in a quote | infinitive | about you | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about you=Theme |
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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