The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 131

Also, you must always carry it concealed beneath your shirt, hanging by the string I have tied to it.

Who acts: you, I · What happens: carry, conceal, hang, tie · To what, where: advice, shirt, string

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, I), 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	Also	also	ADV	_	6 carry	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Also	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 carry	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 carry	aux
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 carry	advmod
6	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 carry	obj
8	concealed	conceal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 carry	xcomp
9	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	11 shirt	case
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 shirt	nmod:poss
11	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 concealed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hanging	punct
13	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 carry	advcl
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 string	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 string	det
16	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hanging	obl
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 tied	nsubj
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 tied	aux
19	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 string	acl:relcl
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 tied	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 carry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry	must	you	advice			always property	tree rules
2	conceal	participle	you not said here			your shirt		vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath shirt=Location
3	hang	gerund	you not said here				by the string	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by string=Location
4	tie	present · perfect	I	the string not said here	advice			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent string=Patient to it=Co-Patient

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 131

The tree

Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 131