The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 123

Nothing Child said, “I am the person who did that, but I do not want any woman to sit beside me.”

Who acts: Nothing Child, person, woman · What happens: say, be, do, not want, sit · To what, where: person, woman · 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 (Nothing Child, person, woman), 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	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 Child	compound
2	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 person	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 person	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 person	nsubj
7	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 person	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 person	det
9	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	ccomp
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 did	nsubj
11	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 person	acl:relcl
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 did	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 want	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 want	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 want	nsubj
16	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 want	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 want	advmod
18	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	20 woman	det
20	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 want	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 sit	mark
22	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 want	xcomp
23	beside	beside	ADP	_	24 me	case
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 sit	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 want	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Nothing Child			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present	Nothing Child = child	the person		tree rules
3	do in a quote	past	the person	the person		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
4	not want in a quote	present · do-support	Nothing Child = child	any woman		tree rules
5	sit not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	any woman not said here		beside Nothing Child = child	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside i=Location

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 tree

Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 123