The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 97

I told you I was going to give you back to your father, and I am going to take you there this morning.

Who acts: I · What happens: tell, go, give back, take · To what, where: you · 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 (I), 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	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 going	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 going	aux
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 told	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 give	mark
8	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 going	xcomp
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 give	iobj
10	back	back	ADP	_	8 give	compound:prt
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 father	case
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 father	nmod:poss
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 give	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 going	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 going	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 going	nsubj
17	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 going	aux
18	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 told	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 take	mark
20	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 going	xcomp
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 take	obj
22	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 take	advmod
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 morning	det
24	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 take	obl:unmarked
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	I	you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go	past · progressive	I					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	give back	to-infinitive	I not said here	you			to your father	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Theme to father=Recipient
4	go	present · progressive	I					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	take	to-infinitive	I not said here	you	there	morning		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=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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🌲 The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 97

The tree

Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 97