The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 132
One day Nothing Child said to his wife: “Now you stay here for a while.
Who acts: Nothing, wife · What happens: say, stay · To what, where: wife · 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, wife), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Nothing | Nothing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 4 | Child | Child | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Nothing | flat |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 wife | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 stay | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 stay | punct |
| 11 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 stay | advmod |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 stay | nsubj |
| 13 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 stay | advmod |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 while | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 while | det |
| 17 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stay | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Nothing | Nothing's wife | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | stay in a quote | present | Nothing's wife = wife | here | now; while | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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