The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Medicine Lodge, sentence 92
Sun Dog said: “Soon we will have to part, but first I must tell you what the Sun has commanded you to do.
Who acts: Sun Dog, we, Sun · What happens: say, have, tell, command, do · To what, where: part, 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 (Sun Dog, we, Sun), 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 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Dog | compound |
| 2 | Dog | Dog | PROPN | _ | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 6 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 have | advmod |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | aux |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 part | mark |
| 11 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tell | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 tell | cc |
| 14 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 tell | advmod |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 tell | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 tell | aux |
| 17 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 have | parataxis |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 tell | iobj |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 commanded | obj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Sun | det |
| 21 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 commanded | nsubj |
| 22 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 commanded | aux |
| 23 | commanded | command | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 tell | ccomp |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 commanded | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 do | mark |
| 26 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 commanded | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Sun Dog | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | future | we | part | soon property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | must | Sun Dog = dog | you | first property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 4 | command in a quote | present · perfect | the Sun | you | what obj | tree rules | |||
| 5 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | the Sun not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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