The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 166
Now, when Raven Arrow’s wife saw this she felt that she too would like some berries, and she asked her husband if he could do this.
Who acts: wife, woman, husband · What happens: see, feel, like, ask, do · To what, where: this, berries, husband · 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, woman, husband), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 saw | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 saw | advmod |
| 4 | Raven | Raven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Arrow | compound |
| 5 | Arrow | Arrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Arrow | case |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 saw | obj |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 felt | nsubj |
| 11 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 saw | ccomp |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 like | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 like | nsubj |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 like | advmod |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 like | aux |
| 16 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 felt | ccomp |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 berries | det |
| 18 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 like | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 asked | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 asked | cc |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 asked | nsubj |
| 22 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 saw | conj |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 husband | nmod:poss |
| 24 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 asked | obj |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 do | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 do | nsubj |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 do | aux |
| 28 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 asked | xcomp |
| 29 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 do | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Raven Arrow's wife | this | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | feel | past | woman | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | like | would | woman | some berries | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot berry=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | woman | woman's husband | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent husband=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | do a condition, not said to happen | could | husband | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
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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