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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 66

“Surely mysterious things are happening about here,” said Low Wolf, “and I suspect your husband is not what he seems to be.

Who acts: mysterious things, Low Wolf, husband · What happens: happen, say, suspect, not be, seem, be · 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 (mysterious things, Low Wolf, husband), 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

punctadvmodamodnsubjauxccompcaseoblpunctpunctamodnsubjpunctpunctccnsubjccompnmod:possnsubjcopadvmodparataxisnsubjacl:relclmarkxcomppunctroot“PUNCTSurelyADVmysteriousADJthingsNOUNareAUXhappeningVERBaboutADPhereADV,PUNCT”PUNCTsaidVERBLowADJWolfPROPN,PUNCT“PUNCTandCCONJIPRONsuspectVERByourPRONhusbandNOUNisAUXnotPARTwhatPRONhePRONseemsVERBtoPARTbeVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_6 happeningpunct
2SurelysurelyADV_3 mysteriousadvmod
3mysteriousmysteriousADJDegree=Pos4 thingsamod
4thingsthingNOUNNumber=Plur6 happeningnsubj
5arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 happeningaux
6happeninghappenVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part11 saidccomp
7aboutaboutADP_8 herecase
8herehereADVPronType=Dem6 happeningobl
9,,PUNCT_6 happeningpunct
10”"PUNCT_6 happeningpunct
11saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
12LowlowADJDegree=Pos13 Wolfamod
13WolfWolfPROPNNumber=Sing11 saidnsubj
14,,PUNCT_18 suspectpunct
15“"PUNCT_18 suspectpunct
16andandCCONJ_18 suspectcc
17IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs18 suspectnsubj
18suspectsuspectVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin11 saidccomp
19youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs20 husbandnmod:poss
20husbandhusbandNOUNNumber=Sing23 whatnsubj
21isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin23 whatcop
22notnotPARTPolarity=Neg23 whatadvmod
23whatwhatPRONPronType=Int18 suspectparataxis
24hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 seemsnsubj
25seemsseemVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin23 whatacl:relcl
26totoPART_27 bemark
27bebeVERBVerbForm=Inf25 seemsxcomp
28..PUNCT_11 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1happen in a quotepresent · progressivemysterious thingsvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about here=Location
2say speech: assertpastLow Wolfvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3suspect in a quotepresentLow Wolf = wolfvn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4not is a in a quotepresentyour husbandtree rules
5seem in a quotepresenthusbandvn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6be in a quoteto-infinitivehusband not said herevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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