The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 21
“What the Low Wolf has said cannot be unsaid,” he replied.
Who acts: Low Wolf, Wolf · What happens: say, not unsay, reply · 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 (Low Wolf, Wolf), 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 | _ | 11 unsaid | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 said | obj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Wolf | det |
| 4 | Low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Wolf | amod |
| 5 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | aux |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 unsaid | advcl |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 unsaid | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 unsaid | advmod |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 unsaid | aux:pass |
| 11 | unsaid | unsay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 replied | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 unsaid | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 unsaid | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 replied | nsubj |
| 15 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present · perfect | the Low Wolf | What obj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not unsay in a quote | can · passive | Wolf not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | Wolf | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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