The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Ragged Head, sentence 7
“My son, you are a man who need not fear to go into battle, for neither arrow nor bullet nor lance nor knife can hurt you.
Who acts: son, man, arrow · What happens: be, not fear, go, hurt · To what, where: man, battle, you
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 (son, man, arrow), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 man | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 man | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 man | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 fear | nsubj |
| 10 | need | need | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 fear | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 fear | advmod |
| 12 | fear | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 man | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 go | mark |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 fear | xcomp |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 battle | case |
| 16 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 arrow | punct |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 arrow | case |
| 19 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 arrow | det |
| 20 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hurt | nsubj |
| 21 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 22 bullet | cc |
| 22 | bullet | bullet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 arrow | conj |
| 23 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 24 lance | cc |
| 24 | lance | lance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bullet | conj |
| 25 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 26 knife | cc |
| 26 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bullet | conj |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 hurt | aux |
| 28 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 go | advcl |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 hurt | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | My son | a man | you nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not fear in a quote | present | a man | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | to-infinitive | a man not said here | battle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into battle=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | hurt in a quote | can | neither arrow nor bullet nor lance nor knife | you | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Patient |
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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