The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 73
He kept calling to his wife: “Let go of me.
Who acts: husband · What happens: keep, call, let, go · To what, where: wife · 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 (husband), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 kept | nsubj |
| 2 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 kept | xcomp |
| 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 calling | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 Let | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Let | punct |
| 9 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 kept | advcl |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 Let | xcomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 go | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | husband | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | call speech: assert | gerund | husband not said here | husband's wife | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | husband not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | infinitive | husband not said here | of husband | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of i=Initial_Location |
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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