The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 107
“Give me that,” said New Robe, pointing to the floating stick.
Who acts: New Robe · What happens: give, say, point, float · To what, where: that, New Robe, floating 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 (New Robe), 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 | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 2 | Give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Give | iobj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Give | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Robe | amod |
| 9 | Robe | Robe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pointing | punct |
| 11 | pointing | point | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 stick | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stick | det |
| 14 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 stick | amod |
| 15 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pointing | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | infinitive | that | New Robe = robe | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient that=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | New Robe | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | point | gerund | New Robe not said here | the floating stick | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to stick=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | float | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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