The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 14
He wants my daughter, and for a long time has been trying to get her, but I cannot let him have her.
Who acts: Shield, I · What happens: want, try, get, not let, have · To what, where: daughter, Bearhead, Shield
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 (Shield, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wants | nsubj |
| 2 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 4 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wants | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 trying | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 trying | cc |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 trying | obl |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 trying | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 trying | aux |
| 13 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 wants | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 get | mark |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 trying | xcomp |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 get | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 let | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 let | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 let | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 let | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 let | advmod |
| 22 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wants | parataxis |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 let | obj |
| 24 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 let | xcomp |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 have | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wants | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | Shield | my daughter | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot daughter=Theme | ||||
| 2 | try | present · perfect · progressive | Shield not said here | time | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | Shield not said here | Bearhead | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | not let | can | I | Shield | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | have | infinitive | Shield not said here | Bearhead | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
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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