The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 43
“Come with me to our lodge,” she said at last, “and I will find out if it may be as you ask.”
Who acts: Plover, hurry · What happens: come, say, find out, be · To what, where: lodge · 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 (Plover, hurry), 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 | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Come | obl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 lodge | case |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 lodge | nmod:poss |
| 7 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Come | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 last | case |
| 13 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 last | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 find | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 find | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 find | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 find | aux |
| 19 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 find | compound:prt |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 ask | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 ask | nsubj |
| 23 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 ask | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 ask | cop |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 ask | mark |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 ask | nsubj |
| 27 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 find | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 find | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | infinitive | our lodge | with Plover | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lodge=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Plover | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | find out in a quote | future | Plover | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | may | hurry | you nsubj; ask property | tree rules |
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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