The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 109
The youngest girl was willing to do what her father ordered, but the elder was not.
Who acts: youngest girl, father · What happens: be, do, order
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 (youngest girl, father), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 willing | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 willing | cop |
| 5 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 willing | xcomp |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 ordered | obj |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ordered | nsubj |
| 11 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 was | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 was | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 elder | det |
| 15 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 was | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 willing | cop |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 was | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 willing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the youngest girl | willing property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | the youngest girl not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | order | past | chief's father | what obj | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
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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