The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 57
His wife was pleased, and said that he must bring in a deer, for she wished to tan the skin and make him some moccasins.
Who acts: wife, stranger, Plover · What happens: be, say, bring, wish, tan, make · To what, where: deer, skin, moccasins, stranger · 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 (wife, stranger, Plover), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pleased | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pleased | cop |
| 4 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pleased | conj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 bring | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bring | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 bring | aux |
| 11 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 deer | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 deer | det |
| 14 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bring | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wished | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 wished | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 wished | nsubj |
| 18 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 bring | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 tan | mark |
| 20 | tan | tan | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 wished | xcomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 skin | det |
| 22 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tan | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 make | cc |
| 24 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 tan | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 make | obj |
| 26 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 moccasins | det |
| 27 | moccasins | moccasin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 make | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | stranger's wife | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | stranger's wife not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | bring | must | stranger | a deer | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | wish | past | Plover | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | tan not said to happen | to-infinitive | Plover not said here | the skin | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient | ||||
| 6 | make | infinitive | Plover not said here | some moccasins | stranger | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary moccasin=Product |
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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