The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 104
So the chief now said: “Whoever will bring me a white fox with a black-tipped tail shall have my daughters.
Who acts: chief, Whoever · What happens: say, bring, tip, have · To what, where: white fox, chief, daughters · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Nothing Child. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief, Whoever), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 chief | det |
| 3 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 bring | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 bring | punct |
| 8 | Whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 bring | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 bring | aux |
| 10 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 have | advcl |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 bring | obj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 fox | det |
| 13 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fox | amod |
| 14 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bring | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 tail | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 tail | det |
| 17 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tipped | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 black | punct |
| 19 | tipped | tip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 tail | amod |
| 20 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bring | obl |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 have | aux |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 24 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 have | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the chief | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | bring in a quote | future | Whoever | a white fox | the chief = chief | with a tipped tail | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination fox=Theme | ||
| 3 | tip in a quote | participle | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | have in a quote | shall | my daughters | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=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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