The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 130
“You must not look back,” he said, “when you leave us, not even once, or the medicine will leave you and return to me.
Who acts: You, Robe, medicine · What happens: not look back, say, leave, return · To what, where: us, you, Robe · 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, Robe, medicine), 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 look | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 look | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 look | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 look | advmod |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 look | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 look | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 look | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 leave | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 leave | punct |
| 13 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 leave | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 leave | nsubj |
| 15 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 leave | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 once | punct |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 once | advmod |
| 19 | even | even | ADV | _ | 20 once | advmod |
| 20 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 15 leave | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 leave | punct |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 leave | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 medicine | det |
| 24 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 leave | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 leave | aux |
| 26 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 leave | conj |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 leave | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 return | cc |
| 29 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 leave | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 me | case |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 return | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not look back in a quote | must | You | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Robe | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | leave in a quote | present | you | us | once property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | |||
| 4 | leave in a quote | future | the medicine | you | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 5 | return in a quote | infinitive | the medicine not said here | Robe | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to i=Result |
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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