The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 39
I have left my people, for something told me to go in search of a wife.
Who acts: I · What happens: leave, tell, go, search · To what, where: people, me, search, wife · 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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 left | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | aux |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 people | nmod:poss |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 left | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 told | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 something | case |
| 8 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 told | obl |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | conj |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 told | iobj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 go | mark |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 told | xcomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 search | case |
| 14 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 go | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 wife | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 wife | det |
| 17 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 search | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present · perfect | I | my people | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | I not said here | me | for something | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | search of a wife | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location | ||||
| 4 | search | a wife | nom search «act transitive»: of=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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