The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 65
The girl said to him: “I will go to him, and do you creep through the brush, and as soon as I see you I will throw my robe around him and hold him, and you can kill him with your lance.”
Who acts: girl, person · What happens: say, go, creep, see, throw, hold · To what, where: person, brush, robe · 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 (girl, person), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 go | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 go | aux |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 go | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 creep | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 creep | cc |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 creep | aux |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 creep | nsubj |
| 17 | creep | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 go | conj |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 brush | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 brush | det |
| 20 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 creep | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 throw | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 throw | cc |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 soon | advmod |
| 24 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 throw | advmod |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 see | mark |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 see | nsubj |
| 27 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 throw | advcl |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 see | obj |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 throw | nsubj |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 throw | aux |
| 31 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 go | conj |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 robe | nmod:poss |
| 33 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 throw | obj |
| 34 | around | around | ADP | _ | 35 him | case |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 throw | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 hold | cc |
| 37 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 go | conj |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 hold | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 kill | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 kill | cc |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 43 kill | nsubj |
| 42 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 kill | aux |
| 43 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 go | conj |
| 44 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 kill | obj |
| 45 | with | with | ADP | _ | 47 lance | case |
| 46 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 lance | nmod:poss |
| 47 | lance | lance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 kill | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
| 49 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the girl | person | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | future | the girl = girl | person | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | creep in a quote | present · do-support | person | the brush | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through brush=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | see in a quote | present | the girl = girl | person | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | throw in a quote | future | the girl = girl | my robe | around person; soon property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent robe=Theme around he=Destination | |||
| 6 | hold in a quote | infinitive | the girl = girl not said here | person | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 7 | kill in a quote | can | person | person | with your lance | vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with lance=Instrument |
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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