The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 52
She signed back to him that she was a Blackfoot.
Who acts: tribe · What happens: sign back, be · To what, where: son, Blackfoot
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 (tribe), 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 signed | nsubj |
| 2 | signed | sign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 signed | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 signed | obl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 Blackfoot | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 Blackfoot | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Blackfoot | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Blackfoot | det |
| 10 | Blackfoot | blackfoot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 signed | advcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 signed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sign back | past | tribe | son | vn instr_communication-37.4.1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | tribe | a Blackfoot | tree rules |
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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