The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 165
In a short time he told his wife to take the skin off the brush, and when she did so she was astonished, for she found the twigs loaded with fine ripe berries, as though they were growing.
Who acts: husband, woman, twigs · What happens: tell, take, do, be, find, load · To what, where: wife, skin, brush · 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 (husband, woman, twigs), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 told | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 told | nsubj |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 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 | 6 told | iobj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 take | mark |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 told | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 skin | det |
| 12 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 brush | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 brush | det |
| 15 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 did | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 did | cc |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 did | advmod |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 did | nsubj |
| 20 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 told | conj |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 astonished | advmod |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 astonished | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 astonished | cop |
| 24 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 did | advcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 found | punct |
| 26 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 28 found | mark |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 found | nsubj |
| 28 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 did | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 twigs | det |
| 30 | twigs | twig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 loaded | nsubj |
| 31 | loaded | load | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 found | ccomp |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 berries | case |
| 33 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 berries | amod |
| 34 | ripe | ripe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 berries | amod |
| 35 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 loaded | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 growing | punct |
| 37 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 41 growing | mark |
| 38 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 41 growing | mark |
| 39 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 growing | nsubj |
| 40 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 growing | aux |
| 41 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 loaded | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | husband | husband's wife | time | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | husband not said here | the skin | the brush | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent skin=Theme off brush=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | do | past | woman | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | woman | astonished property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | find | past | woman | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | load | past | the twigs | with fine ripe berries | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with berry=Theme | ||||
| 7 | grow | past · progressive | twigs = twig | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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