The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 45
“Father, mother,” she said, as she entered the doorway, “I have found a young man out in the woods who wishes to marry me; are you willing that he should?”
Who acts: Father, Plover, woods, you · What happens: say, enter, find, wish, marry, be · To what, where: doorway, young man, woods, Father · 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 (Father, Plover, woods, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Father | punct |
| 2 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mother | punct |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Father | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Father | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Father | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 entered | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 entered | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 entered | nsubj |
| 12 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 doorway | det |
| 14 | doorway | doorway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 entered | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 found | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 found | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 found | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 found | aux |
| 19 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 entered | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 21 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 man | amod |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 found | obj |
| 23 | out | out | ADV | _ | 19 found | advmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 woods | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 woods | det |
| 26 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 found | obl |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 wishes | nsubj |
| 28 | wishes | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 woods | acl:relcl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 marry | mark |
| 30 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 wishes | xcomp |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 marry | obj |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 willing | punct |
| 33 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 willing | cop |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 willing | nsubj |
| 35 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 should | mark |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 should | nsubj |
| 38 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 willing | advcl |
| 39 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 35 willing | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 willing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Father and mother | Plover nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | enter | past | Plover | the doorway | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme doorway=Destination | ||||
| 3 | find in a quote | present · perfect | Father and mother = father | a young man | the woods | out property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic | ||
| 4 | wish in a quote | present | the woods | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | marry not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the woods not said here | Father and mother = father | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | you | willing 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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