The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 18

I wish I could talk to him; I would like to tell him some things that would be for his good.”

Who acts: I, things · What happens: wish, talk, like, tell, be · To what, where: man, things · 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 (I, things), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 wish	nsubj
2	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 talk	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 talk	aux
5	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wish	ccomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 talk	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 like	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 like	aux
11	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wish	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	13 tell	mark
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 like	xcomp
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tell	iobj
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 things	det
16	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 tell	obj
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 good	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 good	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 good	cop
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 good	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 good	nmod:poss
22	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 things	acl:relcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wish	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	wish	present	I				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	talk	could	I		man		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent
3	like	would	I				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	some things	man		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient thing=Topic
5	is	would	some things			man nmod:poss; good property	tree rules

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 18

The tree

Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 18