The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 49
“Well,” said Low Wolf, “it matters not about his looks, so long as he is an active man; yet it is strange that he is so different from us.
Who acts: Low Wolf, it, Wolf, hair, man · What happens: say, not matter, be · To what, where: active man · 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, it, Wolf, hair), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Wolf | amod |
| 7 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 matters | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 matters | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 matters | nsubj |
| 11 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 matters | advmod |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 looks | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 looks | nmod:poss |
| 15 | looks | look | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 matters | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 long | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 long | advmod |
| 18 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 matters | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 man | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 man | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 man | cop |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 man | det |
| 23 | active | active | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 man | amod |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 long | advcl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 strange | punct |
| 26 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 29 strange | cc |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 strange | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 strange | cop |
| 29 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | parataxis |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 different | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 different | nsubj |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 different | cop |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 different | advmod |
| 34 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 strange | advcl |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 us | case |
| 36 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 different | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Low Wolf | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not matter in a quote | present | it | about Wolf's looks; long property | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | Wolf | a active man | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | hair | strange property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | man | from us; different 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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