The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 123
“Do you go yourself,” the other replied, “or it will be the worse for you.
Who acts: you, curtain · What happens: go, reply, be · To what, where: yourself, other · 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, curtain), 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 | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 go | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 other | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 replied | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 go | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 worse | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 worse | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 worse | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 worse | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 worse | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 worse | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 worse | det |
| 18 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 go | parataxis |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 you | case |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 worse | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present · do-support | you | yourself | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | participle | the other | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | future | curtain | for you; bad property | tree rules |
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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