The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 47
She said, “Oh, my son, I forgot the sack, and left it in a little patch of brush just back of where the lodge stood.”
Who acts: mother, lodge · What happens: say, forget, leave, stand · To what, where: sack, little patch · 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 (mother, lodge), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 forgot | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 forgot | punct |
| 5 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 11 forgot | discourse |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Oh | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 son | nmod:poss |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Oh | iobj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Oh | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 forgot | nsubj |
| 11 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sack | det |
| 13 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 forgot | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 left | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 left | cc |
| 16 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 left | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 patch | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 patch | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 patch | amod |
| 21 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 left | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 brush | case |
| 23 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 patch | nmod |
| 24 | just | just | ADV | _ | 25 back | advmod |
| 25 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 left | advmod |
| 26 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 30 stood | mark |
| 27 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 stood | advmod |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 lodge | det |
| 29 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stood | nsubj |
| 30 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 back | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | forget in a quote | past | mother | the sack | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | leave in a quote | past | mother not said here | sack | a little patch of brush | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in patch=Location | |||
| 4 | stand in a quote | past | the lodge | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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