The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 39
“Very well,” said his wife, “while you are fixing the place, I will go around the point and into the old camp and will see if I can find anything there that has been left behind.”
Who acts: wife, you · What happens: say, fix, go, see, find, leave behind · To what, where: place, point, anything · 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 (wife, you), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 said | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fixing | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 fixing | punct |
| 11 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 fixing | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 fixing | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 fixing | aux |
| 14 | fixing | fix | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 place | det |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fixing | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 go | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 go | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 go | aux |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 21 | around | around | ADP | _ | 23 point | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 point | det |
| 23 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 go | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 camp | cc |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 camp | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 camp | det |
| 27 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 camp | amod |
| 28 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 point | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 see | cc |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 see | aux |
| 31 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 go | conj |
| 32 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 35 find | mark |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 find | nsubj |
| 34 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 find | aux |
| 35 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 see | ccomp |
| 36 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 35 find | obj |
| 37 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 anything | advmod |
| 38 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 left | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 left | aux |
| 40 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 41 left | aux:pass |
| 41 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 anything | acl:relcl |
| 42 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 41 left | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 44 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Shield's wife | well property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fix in a quote | present · progressive | you | the place | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent place=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | future | Shield's wife = wife | the point and the old camp | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme around point=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | see in a quote | future | Shield's wife = wife not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | find a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | Shield's wife = wife | anything | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Topic | ||||
| 6 | leave behind in a quote | present · perfect · passive | behind property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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