The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 147
“Ask him,” he said, “to have four sweat lodges built for me, in a row from east to west, and when the stones are heated to let me know.”
Who acts: man · What happens: ask, say, build, heat, let, know · To what, where: man, stones · 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 (man), 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 | _ | 2 Ask | punct |
| 2 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Ask | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ask | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ask | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 built | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 built | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 have | mark |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 built | aux |
| 12 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 lodges | nummod |
| 13 | sweat | sweat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lodges | compound |
| 14 | lodges | lodge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 have | obj |
| 15 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 said | ccomp |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 built | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 row | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 row | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 row | det |
| 21 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 built | obl |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 east | case |
| 23 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 row | nmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 west | case |
| 25 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 east | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 heated | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 heated | cc |
| 28 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 32 heated | mark |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 stones | det |
| 30 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 heated | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 heated | aux:pass |
| 32 | heated | heat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | conj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 let | mark |
| 34 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 heated | advcl |
| 35 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 let | obj |
| 36 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 let | xcomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive | man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | build in a quote | infinitive · perfect | for man; in a row from east to west | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in row=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | heat in a quote | present · passive | the stones | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 5 | let in a quote | to-infinitive | man | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | know in a quote | infinitive | man not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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