The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 54
“I am glad that you came,” the father said to the young man, “and glad to give you my good daughter.
Who acts: father, young man · What happens: be, come, say, give · To what, where: young man, good daughter · 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, young man), 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 | _ | 4 glad | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 glad | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 glad | cop |
| 4 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 came | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 father | det |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 glad | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 man | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 15 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 glad | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 glad | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 glad | cc |
| 20 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 give | mark |
| 22 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 glad | xcomp |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 give | iobj |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 25 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 daughter | amod |
| 26 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 give | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the father = father | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | past | the young man = man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the father | the young man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | give in a quote | to-infinitive | the father not said here | my good daughter | the young man = man | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=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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