The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 23

She showed her husband the scratches and bruises she had made on herself, and said, “See how he has used me.”

Who acts: woman, husband · What happens: show, make, say, see, use · To what, where: scratches, husband, woman · 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 (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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 showed	nsubj
2	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 husband	nmod:poss
4	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 showed	iobj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 scratches	det
6	scratches	scratch	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 showed	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bruises	cc
8	bruises	bruise	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 scratches	conj
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 made	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 made	aux
11	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 scratches	acl:relcl
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 herself	case
13	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 made	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 showed	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 See	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 See	punct
19	See	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 used	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 used	nsubj
22	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 used	aux
23	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 See	ccomp
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 used	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 See	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 See	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	show	past	woman	the scratches and bruises	woman's husband		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent husband=Recipient scratch=Topic
2	make	past · perfect	woman	the scratches and bruises not said here		on woman	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scratch=Product
3	say speech: assert	past	woman not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	see in a quote	infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	use in a quote	present · perfect	husband	woman			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient

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 23