The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 106
It is only by the help and the power of the Sun that you see me here to-day.
Who acts: lover, you · What happens: be, see · To what, where: that
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Shield Quiver’s Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lover, you), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 help | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 help | cop |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 help | advmod |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 help | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 help | det |
| 6 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 power | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 power | det |
| 9 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 help | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Sun | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Sun | det |
| 12 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 power | nmod |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 see | obj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 see | nsubj |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 help | parataxis |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 see | obj |
| 17 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 see | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 day | case |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 to | punct |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 here | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | lover | by the help and the power of the Sun; the power of the Sun conj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | present | you | that | here | me obj | tree rules |
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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