The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 32
When Shield Quiver found that the Snakes had only just moved from there, he said to his wife: “Here, let us get back in the brush.
Who acts: Shield, us · What happens: find, move, say, let, get back · To what, where: Snakes, wife, us, brush · 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, us), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 found | advmod |
| 2 | Shield | Shield | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 found | nsubj |
| 3 | Quiver | Quiver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Shield | flat |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | advcl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 moved | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Snakes | det |
| 7 | Snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 moved | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 moved | aux |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 moved | advmod |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 moved | advmod |
| 11 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 found | ccomp |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 there | case |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 moved | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 wife | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 wife | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 Here | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Here | punct |
| 22 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 wife | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 let | punct |
| 24 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 25 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 let | obj |
| 26 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 let | xcomp |
| 27 | back | back | ADV | _ | 26 get | advmod |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 brush | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 brush | det |
| 30 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 get | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Shield | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | move | past · perfect · passive | the Snakes | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme from there=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Shield | Shield's wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | get back in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | the brush | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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