The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Ragged Head, sentence 15
After Ragged Head had returned to the camp, he told this part of his dream to no one, except to two of his close friends, for he did not wish it to be known and talked about.
Who acts: Ragged Head, Head · What happens: return, tell, not wish, know, talk about, dream · To what, where: part, one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Ragged Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ragged Head, Head), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 returned | mark |
| 2 | Ragged | ragged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Head | amod |
| 3 | Head | Head | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 returned | aux |
| 5 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 told | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 camp | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 camp | det |
| 8 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 returned | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 returned | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 told | nsubj |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 part | det |
| 13 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 told | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 dream | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 dream | nmod:poss |
| 16 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 part | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 one | case |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 one | det |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 told | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 two | punct |
| 21 | except | except | ADP | _ | 23 two | case |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 two | case |
| 23 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 told | ccomp |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 friends | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 friends | nmod:poss |
| 26 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 friends | amod |
| 27 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 two | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 wish | punct |
| 29 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 33 wish | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 wish | nsubj |
| 31 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 wish | aux |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 wish | advmod |
| 33 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 told | ccomp |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 wish | obj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 known | mark |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 known | aux:pass |
| 37 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 wish | advcl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 talked | cc |
| 39 | talked | talk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 known | conj |
| 40 | about | about | ADV | _ | 39 talked | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past · perfect | Ragged Head | to the camp result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to camp=Result | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Head | this part of Head's dream | no one | two of Head's close friends ccomp | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent part=Recipient clause=Topic | ||
| 3 | not wish | past · do-support | Head | part | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | know | to-infinitive · passive | Head not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 5 | talk about | participle | Head not said here | about property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | dream | Head | nom dream «cognition 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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