The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 93
So he told his daughters to go and marry the found boy.
Who acts: man · What happens: tell, go, marry, find · To what, where: daughters, found boy · 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 (man), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 told | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 5 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 told | iobj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 told | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 marry | cc |
| 9 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 go | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boy | det |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 boy | amod |
| 12 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 marry | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | man | man's daughters | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | man not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | marry | infinitive | man not said here | the found boy | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient | ||||
| 4 | find | participle | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent |
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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