The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 167
But he said: “No. It is useless for me to try to do things that I know I cannot do.
Who acts: husband, No. · What happens: say, be, try, do, know, not do · To what, where: things · 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, No.), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 useless | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 useless | punct |
| 6 | No. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 9 useless | nsubj |
| 7 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 useless | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 useless | cop |
| 9 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | ccomp |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 me | case |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 useless | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 try | mark |
| 13 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 useless | csubj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 do | mark |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 try | xcomp |
| 16 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 do | obj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 know | obl |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 know | nsubj |
| 19 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 things | acl |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 do | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 do | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 do | advmod |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 know | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | husband | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | No. | for husband; It nsubj; useless property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | try in a quote | to-infinitive | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | do not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | things | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | know in a quote | present | husband | things | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | not do in a quote | can | husband | vn act-114-1 «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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