The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 102
“Well,” said the old man to New Robe, “spring has really come, and I know that you wish to return to your people.
Who acts: old man, spring, you · What happens: say, come, know, wish, return · 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 (old man, spring, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Robe | case |
| 10 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Robe | amod |
| 11 | Robe | Robe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 man | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
| 14 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 come | nsubj |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 come | aux |
| 16 | really | really | ADV | _ | 17 come | advmod |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 know | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 know | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 know | nsubj |
| 21 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 wish | mark |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 wish | nsubj |
| 24 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 know | ccomp |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 return | mark |
| 26 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 wish | xcomp |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 people | case |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 people | nmod:poss |
| 29 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 return | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the old man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | come in a quote | present | spring | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | know in a quote | present | the old man = man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | wish in a quote | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | return not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | to your people result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to people=Result |
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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