The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 118
This was a young man who had the power to turn himself into a raven whenever he wished.
Who acts: This, young man, power, man · What happens: be, have, turn, wish · To what, where: young man, power, man, raven
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 (This, young man, power, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 man | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 power | det |
| 9 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 turn | mark |
| 11 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 had | xcomp |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 turn | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 raven | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 raven | det |
| 15 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turn | obl |
| 16 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 wished | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 wished | nsubj |
| 18 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 turn | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | a young man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | a young man | the power | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | turn | to-infinitive | the power not said here | man | a raven | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent himself=Theme into raven=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | wish | past | man | whenever property | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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