The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 132
Never let any one see it, or your power will be broken.”
Who acts: you, one · What happens: not let, see, break · To what, where: one, advice, power
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, one), 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 let | advmod |
| 2 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 one | det |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 let | obj |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 let | xcomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 see | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 broken | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 broken | cc |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 power | nmod:poss |
| 10 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 broken | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 broken | aux:pass |
| 13 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 let | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 let | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not let | imperative | you not said here | any one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | any one not said here | advice | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | break | future · passive | your power | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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