The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 88
I will not do anything to you for what you have done to me, but will take good care of you and will give you back to your father.”
Who acts: I, you · What happens: not do, do, take, give back, care · To what, where: anything, me, good care, you
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 (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 do | advmod |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 do | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 anything | nmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 what | case |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 anything | nmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 done | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 done | aux |
| 12 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 what | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 done | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 take | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 take | cc |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 take | aux |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | parataxis |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 care | amod |
| 20 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 take | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 you | case |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 care | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 give | cc |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 give | aux |
| 25 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 take | conj |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 give | iobj |
| 27 | back | back | ADP | _ | 25 give | compound:prt |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 father | case |
| 29 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 father | nmod:poss |
| 30 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 give | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | future | I | anything | to you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | do | present · perfect | you | me | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | take | future | good care of you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | |||||
| 4 | give back | future | you | to your father | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Theme to father=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | care | you | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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