The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 122

The girl said, “My father sent me to sit beside the person who killed the eagle, the white wolf with the black tail, and the white fox with the black-tipped tail.”

Who acts: girl, father, person · What happens: say, send, sit, kill, tip · To what, where: girl, white fox, eagle · 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 (girl, father, person), 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	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sent	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 sent	punct
6	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 father	nmod:poss
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sent	nsubj
8	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 sent	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 sit	mark
11	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 sent	advcl
12	beside	beside	ADP	_	14 person	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 person	det
14	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sit	obl
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 killed	nsubj
16	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 person	acl:relcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 eagle	det
18	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 killed	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 wolf	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wolf	det
21	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 wolf	amod
22	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 eagle	appos
23	with	with	ADP	_	26 tail	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 tail	det
25	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 tail	amod
26	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wolf	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 fox	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 fox	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 fox	det
30	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 fox	amod
31	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sit	obl
32	with	with	ADP	_	37 tail	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 tail	det
34	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 tipped	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 black	punct
36	tipped	tip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 tail	amod
37	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fox	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the girl			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	send in a quote	past	My father	the girl = girl		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	sit in a quote	to-infinitive	My father not said here	the white fox with the tipped tail	beside the person	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside person=Location
4	kill in a quote	past	the person	the eagle		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eagle=Theme
5	tip in a quote	participle				vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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, Nothing Child, sentence 122