The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Ragged Head, sentence 6

When he was a young man his dream helper had come to him in his sleep and had spoken to him, saying:

Who acts: man, young man · What happens: be, come, speak, say, sleep · To what, where: young man, helper, sleep, man · 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, young man), 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	6 man	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 man	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 man	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 come	nsubj
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 helper	nmod:poss
8	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 helper	compound
9	helper	helper	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 come	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 come	aux
11	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 come	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 sleep	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 sleep	nmod:poss
16	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 come	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 spoken	cc
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 spoken	aux
19	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 come	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 spoken	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 saying	punct
23	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 spoken	advcl
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	man	a young man				tree rules
2	come	past · perfect	a young man		helper	man's sleep	man's dream helper nsubj	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
3	speak speech: other	past · perfect	a young man not said here		man			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent
4	say speech: assert	gerund	a young man not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	sleep		man					nom sleep «state intransitive»: 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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🌲 The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Ragged Head, sentence 6

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Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Ragged Head, sentence 6