The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 106
“Leave here at once; the man I told you of is returning.”
Who acts: you, wife, man · What happens: leave, tell, return · To what, where: man, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, wife, man), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Leave | punct |
| 2 | Leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Leave | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 once | case |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 Leave | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 returning | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 returning | nsubj |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 told | nsubj |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 man | acl:relcl |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 told | iobj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 told | obl |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 returning | aux |
| 14 | returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Leave | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Leave | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave in a quote | imperative | you not said here | here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at once=Location | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past | Maker's wife = wife | the man not said here | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 3 | return in a quote | present · progressive | the man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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