The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 160

One day, in the early summer, Nothing Child’s wife said to him, “Oh, how much I would like some fresh berries to eat!”

Who acts: wife · What happens: say, like, eat · To what, where: husband, much · 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 (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	13 said	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 summer	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 summer	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 summer	det
6	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 summer	amod
7	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 day	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
9	Nothing	Nothing	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 wife	nmod:poss
10	Child	Child	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Nothing	flat
11	’s	's	PART	_	9 Nothing	case
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 like	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 like	punct
18	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	24 like	discourse
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 like	punct
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 much	advmod
21	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 like	obj
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 like	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 like	aux
24	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
25	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 berries	det
26	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 berries	amod
27	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 like	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 eat	mark
29	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 berries	acl
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 like	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	24 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	Nothing's wife		husband	day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	like in a quote	would	Nothing's wife = wife	much			some fresh berries obj	tree rules
3	eat in a quote	to-infinitive	Nothing's wife = wife not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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 160

The tree

Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 160