The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 96
The next morning Shield Quiver said to his wife: “Put on your best clothing.
Who acts: Shield · What happens: say, put · To what, where: wife, best clothing · 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 (Shield), 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 | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | Shield | Shield | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 5 | Quiver | Quiver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Shield | flat |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 wife | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 Put | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Put | punct |
| 12 | Put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 clothing | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 clothing | nmod:poss |
| 15 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 clothing | amod |
| 16 | clothing | clothing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Put | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Shield | Shield's wife | morning | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient | |||
| 2 | put in a quote | infinitive | Shield not said here | your best clothing | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on clothing=Destination |
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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