The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 55
We will not be so lonely now, and if the enemy should come there will be two of us to fight them.”
Who acts: We, enemy · What happens: not be, come, be, fight · To what, where: two, lodges
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 (We, enemy), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 lonely | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 lonely | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 lonely | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 lonely | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 lonely | advmod |
| 6 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 lonely | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 come | cc |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 come | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 enemy | det |
| 12 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 come | nsubj |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 come | aux |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 lonely | conj |
| 15 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 come | advmod |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 two | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 two | cop |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 come | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 us | case |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 two | nmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 fight | mark |
| 22 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 come | advcl |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 fight | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lonely | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 lonely | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | future | We | now | lonely property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come a condition, not said to happen | should | the enemy | there | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | future | two | of us | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fight | to-infinitive | the enemy not said here | lodges = lodge | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent |
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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