The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 67

Be sure to do exactly as I tell you from this time on, and in the days to come you will be unhappy no longer, but will have plenty of everything and will have full life.

Who acts: you, I · What happens: be, do, tell on, come, have · To what, where: you, plenty, full life · 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 (you, I), 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 sure	cop
2	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 do	mark
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tell	advcl
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	8 tell	advmod
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 tell	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 tell	nsubj
8	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sure	ccomp
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 time	case
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obl
13	on	on	ADP	_	8 tell	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 unhappy	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 unhappy	cc
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 days	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 days	det
18	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 unhappy	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 come	mark
20	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 days	acl
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 unhappy	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 unhappy	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 unhappy	cop
24	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tell	ccomp
25	no	no	ADV	_	26 longer	advmod
26	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 unhappy	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 have	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 have	cc
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 have	aux
30	have	have	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	parataxis
31	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 have	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 everything	case
33	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	31 plenty	nmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 have	cc
35	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 have	aux
36	have	have	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	30 have	conj
37	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 life	amod
38	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 have	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here				sure property	tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell on speech: assert	present	I		you	time	exactly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	come	to-infinitive	you not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	future	you			day	long, unhappy property	tree rules
6	have	future		plenty of everything				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient
7	have	future		full life				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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 67