The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 96
Plover Call would not answer his question, but told him to go with her to her parents’ lodge.
Who acts: Plover Call, person · What happens: not answer, tell, go, question · To what, where: question, person, lodge · 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 (Plover Call, person), 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 | Plover | plover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Call | compound |
| 2 | Call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answer | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 answer | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 answer | advmod |
| 5 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 question | nmod:poss |
| 7 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answer | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 told | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 told | cc |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 answer | parataxis |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 told | iobj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 go | mark |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 told | xcomp |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 go | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 lodge | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 parents | nmod:poss |
| 18 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 lodge | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 18 parents | case |
| 20 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 go | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not answer speech: assert | would | Plover Call | person's question | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | person | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | Call's parents's lodge | with Call | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lodge=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | question | person | nom question «communication transitive»: poss=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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