The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 18
It is not right for you to take your wife and daughter out on the lonely plains.
Who acts: It, you · What happens: not be, take out · To what, where: wife, lonely plains
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 (It, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 right | advmod |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 take | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 take | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 take | mark |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 right | csubj |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 daughter | cc |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wife | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 take | compound:prt |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 plains | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 plains | det |
| 16 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 plains | amod |
| 17 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 take | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | It | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take out | to-infinitive | you | your wife and daughter | the lonely plains | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=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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