The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 162
Well, now, go out and gather a lot of sarvis berry branches and bring them to me here in the lodge.”
What happens: go out, gather, bring · To what, where: lot, berries, me, lodge
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: 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 go | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 go | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 now | punct |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 gather | advcl |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 gather | cc |
| 8 | gather | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lot | det |
| 10 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gather | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 branches | case |
| 12 | sarvis | sarvis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 berry | compound |
| 13 | berry | berry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 branches | compound |
| 14 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lot | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bring | cc |
| 16 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 gather | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bring | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 me | case |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 bring | obl |
| 20 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 bring | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 lodge | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 lodge | det |
| 23 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bring | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gather | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 gather | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | infinitive | now | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | gather | present | a lot of berry branches | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bring | infinitive | berries = berry | me | the lodge; here | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to i=Destination |
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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