The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 100
He will try to make you believe it is worthless, but insist on having it, and finally he will give it to you.”
Who acts: pool, you, stick · What happens: try, make, believe, be, insist, have · To what, where: you, stick · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Beaver Stick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pool, you, stick), 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 | 3 try | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 try | aux |
| 3 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 make | mark |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 try | xcomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 make | obj |
| 7 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 make | xcomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 worthless | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 worthless | cop |
| 10 | worthless | worthless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 believe | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 insist | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 insist | cc |
| 13 | insist | insist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 try | parataxis |
| 14 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 15 having | mark |
| 15 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 insist | advcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 having | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 give | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 give | cc |
| 19 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 22 give | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 give | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 give | aux |
| 22 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 try | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 give | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 you | case |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 give | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 try | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | future | pool | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | pool not said here | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | believe not said to happen | infinitive | you not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | present | stick | worthless property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | insist speech: other | present | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | have | gerund | stick | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||||
| 7 | give | future | pool | stick | you | finally property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to you=Recipient |
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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