The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 88
At last Nothing Child said to the old woman, “Grandmother, make me some arrows so that I can kill the eagle.”
Who acts: Child · What happens: say, make, kill · To what, where: old woman, last Nothing, arrows, Child, eagle · 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 (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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 Nothing | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Nothing | amod |
| 3 | Nothing | Nothing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 4 | Child | Child | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 woman | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 woman | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 woman | amod |
| 9 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Grandmother | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Grandmother | punct |
| 12 | Grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 woman | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 make | obj |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 arrows | det |
| 17 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 make | obj |
| 18 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 22 kill | mark |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 so | fixed |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 kill | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 kill | aux |
| 22 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 make | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 eagle | det |
| 24 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 kill | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Child | the old woman and Grandmother | last Nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to woman=Recipient | |||
| 2 | make in a quote | infinitive | Child not said here | some arrows | Child | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary arrow=Product | |||
| 3 | kill in a quote | can | Child | the eagle | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eagle=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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