The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 147

Often Cold Maker said to her people that he could not remain with them always, but he never told them when he should go away.

Who acts: Cold Maker, Maker · What happens: say, not remain, not tell, go away · To what, where: people · 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 (Cold Maker, Maker), 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	Often	often	ADV	_	2 Cold	advmod
2	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Maker	amod
3	Maker	Maker	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 people	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 people	nmod:poss
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	obl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 remain	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 remain	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 remain	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 remain	advmod
12	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 remain	obl
15	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	12 remain	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 told	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 told	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 told	nsubj
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 told	advmod
20	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 told	iobj
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 go	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 go	nsubj
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 go	aux
25	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 told	ccomp
26	away	away	ADV	_	25 go	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Cold Maker		to Call's people	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to people=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	not remain	could	Maker		with people; always property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not tell speech: assert	past	Maker	people		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	go away	should	Maker		away property	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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🌲 The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 147

The tree

Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 147