The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 112
“It is because I do love you that I want to have you go.”
Who acts: wind, husband, you · What happens: be, want, have, go · To what, where: you
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 (wind, husband, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 love | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 love | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 love | cop |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 love | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 love | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 love | aux |
| 7 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 love | obj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 want | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 want | nsubj |
| 11 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 love | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 have | mark |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 want | xcomp |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 have | obj |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 have | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 love | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 love | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present · do-support | wind | I nsubj; you obj; love property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | want in a quote | present | rumbling's husband = husband | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | rumbling's husband = husband not said here | you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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