The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 156
They were both so happy they could not speak.
Who acts: people · What happens: be, not speak · 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 (people), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 happy | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 happy | cop |
| 3 | both | both | ADV | _ | 5 happy | advmod |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 happy | advmod |
| 5 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 speak | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 speak | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 speak | advmod |
| 9 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 happy | ccomp |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | people | both, happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not speak speech: other | could | people | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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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