The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 117

Now let me explain to you,” and the old man began to point out the different medicines and to tell what they were, explaining the wonderful and mysterious power of each.

Who acts: you, me, old man, medicines · What happens: let, explain, begin, point out, tell · To what, where: me, you, different medicines, wonderful power · 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, me, old man, medicines), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 let	advmod
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 let	obj
4	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 explain	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 explain	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 let	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 began	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 began	nsubj
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 let	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 point	mark
15	point	point	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	xcomp
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 point	compound:prt
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 medicines	det
18	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 medicines	amod
19	medicines	medicine	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 point	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 tell	cc
21	to	to	PART	_	22 tell	mark
22	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 point	conj
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 explaining	obj
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 explaining	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 explaining	aux
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 explaining	punct
27	explaining	explain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 tell	ccomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 power	det
29	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 power	amod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 mysterious	cc
31	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 wonderful	conj
32	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 explaining	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 each	case
34	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	32 power	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	me		now		tree rules
2	explain speech: assert	infinitive	me not said here		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient
3	begin in a quote	past	the old man					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	point out in a quote	to-infinitive	the old man not said here	the different medicines				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Patient
5	tell speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	the old man not said here					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	explain speech: assert in a quote	past · progressive	medicines = medicine	the wonderful power of each			what obj	tree rules

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 117