The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 69

This seems to you like a hard thing, something that cannot be done, but, by the power that I give you, you will be able to do it.”

Who acts: This, you, I, power · What happens: seem, like, not do, give, be, do · To what, where: hard thing, power, you

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 (This, you, I, power), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 seems	nsubj
2	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	SCONJ	_	5 like	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 like	nsubj
5	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 seems	advcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 thing	det
7	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thing	amod
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 like	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 something	punct
10	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 thing	appos
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 done	obj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 done	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 done	advmod
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 done	aux:pass
15	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 something	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 able	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 able	cc
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 power	punct
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 power	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 power	det
21	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 able	nsubj
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 give	obj
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 give	nsubj
24	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 power	acl:relcl
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 give	iobj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 power	punct
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 able	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 able	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 able	cop
30	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 seems	parataxis
31	to	to	PART	_	32 do	mark
32	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 able	xcomp
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 do	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seems	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 seems	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	seem	present	This				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	like	present	you	a hard thing			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme
3	not do	can · passive					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: that=Eventuality
4	give	present	I	the power	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient that=Theme
5	is	future	the power			you nsubj; able property	tree rules
6	do	to-infinitive	the power not said here	power			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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🌲 The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 69

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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 69