The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 141
After the girl had gone he spoke to his grandmother and said: “Grandmother, you have seen what strange things I have done, and you can see that I have some power.
Who acts: girl, man, Grandmother, you · What happens: go, speak, say, see, do, have · To what, where: Grandmother, strange things, power · 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, man, Grandmother, you), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 gone | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | aux |
| 5 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 spoke | advcl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 spoke | nsubj |
| 7 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 grandmother | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 10 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spoke | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 spoke | conj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 Grandmother | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Grandmother | punct |
| 15 | Grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 seen | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 seen | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 seen | aux |
| 19 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 Grandmother | acl:relcl |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 seen | obj |
| 21 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 things | amod |
| 22 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 what | nsubj |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 done | nsubj |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 done | aux |
| 25 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 things | acl:relcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 see | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 see | cc |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 see | nsubj |
| 29 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 see | aux |
| 30 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | conj |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 have | mark |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 have | nsubj |
| 33 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 see | ccomp |
| 34 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 35 power | det |
| 35 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 have | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | the girl | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | man | to man's grandmother | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to grandmother=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Grandmother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | see in a quote | present · perfect | you | Grandmother | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | do in a quote | present · perfect | Grandmother | strange things not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | see in a quote | can | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | have in a quote | present | Grandmother | some power | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |
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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