The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 38
Shield Quiver said to his wife: “While we have to wait, I will fix up a little shelter of brush here, so that we may keep dry; but to-night we will go to the camp and take horses.”
Who acts: Shield, we · What happens: say, have, wait, fix up, keep, go · To what, where: wife, little shelter, camp, horses · 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, we), 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 said | nsubj |
| 2 | Quiver | Quiver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Shield | flat |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 wife | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wife | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 fix | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 fix | punct |
| 9 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 have | mark |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 fix | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 wait | mark |
| 13 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 have | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 fix | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 fix | aux |
| 17 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 fix | compound:prt |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 shelter | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 shelter | amod |
| 21 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fix | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 brush | case |
| 23 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 shelter | nmod |
| 24 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 fix | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 keep | punct |
| 26 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 30 keep | mark |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 so | fixed |
| 28 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 keep | nsubj |
| 29 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 keep | aux |
| 30 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 fix | conj |
| 31 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 keep | xcomp |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 go | punct |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 39 go | cc |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 night | case |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 to | punct |
| 36 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 go | obl |
| 37 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 go | nsubj |
| 38 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 go | aux |
| 39 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 camp | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 camp | det |
| 42 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 go | obl |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 take | cc |
| 44 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 go | conj |
| 45 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 take | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 39 go | punct |
| 47 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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 | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | we | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | wait in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fix up in a quote | future | Shield | a little shelter of brush | here | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent shelter=Patient | |||
| 5 | keep in a quote | may | we | dry property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | go in a quote | future | we | the camp | night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to camp=Initial_Location | |||
| 7 | take in a quote | infinitive | we not said here | horses | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument horse=Destination |
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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