The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 132
“Oh, Cold Maker, have pity!”
What happens: have · To what, where: pity
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: 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 have | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 Maker | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | Cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Maker | amod |
| 5 | Maker | Maker | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 have | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | obj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | pity | Cold Maker vocative | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient |
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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