The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Medicine Lodge, sentence 48
The young man said to Scarface: “My name is Sun Dog.
Who acts: young man, name, My · What happens: say, be, name · To what, where: Scarface, Sun Dog · 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 (young man, name, My), 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 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Scarface | case |
| 6 | Scarface | scarface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 Dog | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Dog | punct |
| 9 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 name | nmod:poss |
| 10 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Dog | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 Dog | cop |
| 12 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Dog | compound |
| 13 | Dog | Dog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the young man | Scarface | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to scarface=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | My name | Sun Dog | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | name in a quote | My | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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