The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 109
This is the best I can do, to give you this scalp and your daughter back again.”
Who acts: This, I · What happens: be, do, give · To what, where: scalp, you
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 (This, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 best | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 best | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 best | det |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 do | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | aux |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 best | csubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 give | mark |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 do | conj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 give | iobj |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 scalp | det |
| 13 | scalp | scalp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 daughter | cc |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 scalp | conj |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 again | advmod |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 give | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | This | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | can | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | give | to-infinitive | I not said here | this scalp and your daughter | you | again | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient scalp=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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