The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 18
Shield Quiver thought for a little while, and then said: “Very well; I will go to war, and I will take your daughter with me, but if I go with a woman I cannot let men go with me.
Who acts: Shield, men · What happens: think, say, go, take, not let · To what, where: war, daughter, men · Speech: someone speaks here
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, men), 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 | Shield | Shield | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | Quiver | Quiver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Shield | flat |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 while | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 while | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 while | amod |
| 7 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 said | advmod |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 well | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 well | punct |
| 14 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 15 well | advmod |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 said | advmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 go | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 go | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 go | aux |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 war | case |
| 21 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 go | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 take | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 take | cc |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 take | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 take | aux |
| 26 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 go | parataxis |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 28 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 take | obj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 me | case |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 take | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 let | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 42 let | cc |
| 33 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 35 go | mark |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 go | nsubj |
| 35 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 let | advcl |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 woman | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 woman | det |
| 38 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 go | obl |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 let | nsubj |
| 40 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 let | aux |
| 41 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 42 let | advmod |
| 42 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 go | parataxis |
| 43 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 let | obj |
| 44 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 let | xcomp |
| 45 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 me | case |
| 46 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 go | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Shield | while | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Shield not said here | then | well property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | go in a quote | future | Shield | war | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to war=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | take in a quote | future | Shield | your daughter | with Shield | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument daughter=Destination | |||
| 5 | go a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | Shield | with a woman | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with woman=Beneficiary | ||||
| 6 | not let in a quote | can | Shield | men | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | go in a quote | infinitive | men not said here | with Shield | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with i=Beneficiary |
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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