The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Ragged Head, sentence 51
When he came close to him he said: “Why did you not wait for me on the other side, as you said you would?”
Who acts: man, you · What happens: come, say, not wait · To what, where: boy, other side · 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 (man, you), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | advcl |
| 4 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 wait | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 wait | punct |
| 11 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 wait | advmod |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 wait | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 wait | nsubj |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 wait | advmod |
| 15 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 wait | obl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 side | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 side | det |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 side | amod |
| 21 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wait | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 said | mark |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 said | nsubj |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 wait | advcl |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 would | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 said | ccomp |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 wait | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | man | boy | close property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not wait in a quote | past · do-support | you | the other side | for man | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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