The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 109
“O-e-ai!
To what, where: e ai
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: 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 | _ | 6 ai | punct |
| 2 | O | o | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 e | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 O | punct |
| 4 | e | e | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ai | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 e | punct |
| 6 | ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 ai | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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