The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 52
The young man replied readily to all of them, so after he had considered for a time, Low Wolf concluded to give him his daughter.
Who acts: young man, man, Low Wolf · What happens: reply, consider, conclude, give · To what, where: daughter, man
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 (young man, man, Low 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | readily | readily | ADV | _ | 4 replied | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 all | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 replied | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 all | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 considered | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 considered | advmod |
| 12 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 15 considered | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 considered | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 considered | aux |
| 15 | considered | consider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 replied | parataxis |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 considered | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 concluded | punct |
| 20 | Low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Wolf | amod |
| 21 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 concluded | nsubj |
| 22 | concluded | conclude | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 considered | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 give | mark |
| 24 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 concluded | xcomp |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 give | iobj |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 27 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 give | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the young man | to all of questions; readily property | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to all=Theme | ||||
| 2 | consider | past · perfect | man | time | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | conclude | past | Low Wolf | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | give | to-infinitive | Low Wolf not said here | man's daughter | man | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient daughter=Theme |
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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