The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 99
We need another drawer of the bow in case of attack, so put up your lodge again and try to live happily.”
Who acts: We · What happens: need, put up, try, live · To what, where: drawer, lodge
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), 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 | 2 need | nsubj |
| 2 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 drawer | det |
| 4 | drawer | drawer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 need | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 bow | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bow | det |
| 7 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drawer | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 case | case |
| 9 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bow | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 attack | case |
| 11 | attack | attack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 case | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 put | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 put | advmod |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 need | parataxis |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 put | compound:prt |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 lodge | nmod:poss |
| 17 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obj |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 put | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 try | cc |
| 20 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 put | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 live | mark |
| 22 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 try | xcomp |
| 23 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 22 live | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 need | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 need | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | We | another drawer of the bow in case of attack | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot drawer=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put up | infinitive | your lodge | again | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent lodge=Goal | ||||
| 3 | try | infinitive | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | live not said to happen | to-infinitive | happily property | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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