The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 119

Now I have explained them all, tell me which will you have?”

Who acts: I, you · What happens: explain, tell, have · To what, where: medicines, me · 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 (I, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 explained	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 explained	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 explained	aux
4	explained	explain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 tell	advcl
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 explained	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 them	nmod:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 explained	punct
8	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 have	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 have	aux
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 have	nsubj
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tell	ccomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	present · perfect	I	medicines = medicine		now		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
3	have	future					which nsubj; you nsubj	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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 tree

Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 119