The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 11

“Well,” said one, “you have each told your choice, but you have not spoken of the very handsomest and nicest of all the young men.

Who acts: you · What happens: say, tell, not speak · To what, where: one, choice · 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 (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	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 said	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 have	nsubj
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 told	aux
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 have	obj
12	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 said	ccomp
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 choice	nmod:poss
14	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	iobj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 spoken	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 spoken	cc
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 spoken	nsubj
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 spoken	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 spoken	advmod
20	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 said	parataxis
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 handsomest	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 handsomest	det
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 handsomest	advmod
24	handsomest	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 spoken	parataxis
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 nicest	cc
26	nicest	nice	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 handsomest	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	31 men	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 men	det:predet
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 men	det
30	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 men	amod
31	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 nicest	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		one		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	present · perfect			your choice	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent choice=Recipient
3	not speak speech: other in a quote	present · perfect	you			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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, The Beaver Stick, sentence 11

The tree

Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 11