The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 22

While he was gone the woman said to her husband, “Your brother has beaten me because I asked him to shoot a pretty bird for me.”

Who acts: boy, woman, brother · What happens: be, say, beat, ask, shoot · To what, where: husband, woman, boy, pretty bird · 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 (boy, woman, brother), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 gone	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	cop
4	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woman	det
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	parataxis
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 husband	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 husband	nmod:poss
10	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 beaten	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 beaten	punct
13	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 brother	nmod:poss
14	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 beaten	nsubj
15	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 beaten	aux
16	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 said	parataxis
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 beaten	obj
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	20 asked	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 asked	nsubj
20	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	advcl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 asked	iobj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 shoot	mark
23	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 asked	xcomp
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 bird	det
25	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 bird	amod
26	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shoot	obj
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 me	case
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 shoot	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	boy			gone property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the woman		woman's husband		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to husband=Recipient clause=Topic
3	beat in a quote	present · perfect	Your brother	the woman = woman			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location i=Theme
4	ask speech: ask in a quote	past	the woman = woman		boy		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	shoot not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the woman = woman not said here	a pretty bird		for the woman = woman	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=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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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 22