The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 168
I can change myself into a raven and can do many other things, but I cannot make ripe berries grow in the spring, nor can I do many other things that Nothing Child does.”
Who acts: I, ripe berries, Nothing Child · What happens: change, do, not make, grow · To what, where: myself, raven, many other things
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 (I, ripe berries, Nothing Child), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 change | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 change | aux |
| 3 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 change | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 raven | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 raven | det |
| 7 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 change | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 do | cc |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | aux |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 change | conj |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 things | amod |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 things | amod |
| 13 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 do | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 make | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 make | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 make | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 make | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 make | advmod |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 change | parataxis |
| 20 | ripe | ripe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 berries | amod |
| 21 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 grow | nsubj |
| 22 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 make | parataxis |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 spring | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 spring | det |
| 25 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 grow | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 do | punct |
| 27 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 30 do | cc |
| 28 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 do | aux |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 do | nsubj |
| 30 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 change | parataxis |
| 31 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 things | amod |
| 32 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 things | amod |
| 33 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 do | obj |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 does | obj |
| 35 | Nothing | Nothing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Child | compound |
| 36 | Child | Child | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 does | nsubj |
| 37 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 things | acl:relcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 change | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 change | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | can | I | myself | into a raven result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent myself=Patient into raven=Result | |||
| 2 | do | can | I not said here | many other things | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | not make | can | I | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | grow | present | ripe berries | spring | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | do | can | I | many other things | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | do | present | Nothing Child | many other things | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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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