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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

markdetnsubjauxadvclnsubjcasenmod:possoblccconjpunctpunctnsubjpunctnsubjauxacl:relclobjamodnsubjnsubjauxacl:relclpunctccnsubjauxconjmarknsubjccompdetobjpunctrootAfterSCONJtheDETgirlNOUNhadAUXgoneVERBhePRONspokeVERBtoADPhisPRONgrandmotherNOUNandCCONJsaidVERB:PUNCT“PUNCTGrandmotherNOUN,PUNCTyouPRONhaveAUXseenVERBwhatPRONstrangeADJthingsNOUNIPRONhaveAUXdoneVERB,PUNCTandCCONJyouPRONcanAUXseeVERBthatSCONJIPRONhaveVERBsomeDETpowerNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AfterafterSCONJ_5 gonemark
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 girldet
3girlgirlNOUNNumber=Sing5 gonensubj
4hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 goneaux
5gonegoVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part7 spokeadvcl
6hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 spokensubj
7spokespeakVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8totoADP_10 grandmothercase
9hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs10 grandmothernmod:poss
10grandmothergrandmotherNOUNNumber=Sing7 spokeobl
11andandCCONJ_12 saidcc
12saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 spokeconj
13::PUNCT_15 Grandmotherpunct
14“"PUNCT_15 Grandmotherpunct
15GrandmothergrandmotherNOUNNumber=Sing12 saidnsubj
16,,PUNCT_19 seenpunct
17youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs19 seennsubj
18havehaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin19 seenaux
19seenseeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part15 Grandmotheracl:relcl
20whatwhatPRONPronType=Int19 seenobj
21strangestrangeADJDegree=Pos22 thingsamod
22thingsthingNOUNNumber=Plur20 whatnsubj
23IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs25 donensubj
24havehaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin25 doneaux
25donedoVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part22 thingsacl:relcl
26,,PUNCT_30 seepunct
27andandCCONJ_30 seecc
28youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs30 seensubj
29cancanAUXVerbForm=Fin30 seeaux
30seeseeVERBVerbForm=Inf12 saidconj
31thatthatSCONJ_33 havemark
32IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs33 havensubj
33havehaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin30 seeccomp
34somesomeDETPronType=Ind35 powerdet
35powerpowerNOUNNumber=Sing33 haveobj
36..PUNCT_7 spokepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1gopast · perfectthe girlvn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2speak speech: otherpastmanto man's grandmothervn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to grandmother=Co-Agent
3say speech: assertpastGrandmothervn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4see in a quotepresent · perfectyouGrandmothervn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
5do in a quotepresent · perfectGrandmotherstrange things not said herevn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
6see in a quotecanyouvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7have in a quotepresentGrandmothersome powervn 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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