The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 20

“Well,” replied the other, “I pity the poor young man, and, if my father would allow me, I would marry him and make a man of him.

Who acts: I, father · What happens: reply, pity, allow, marry, make · To what, where: other, poor young man, me, man · 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, father), 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	_	5 replied	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 replied	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 replied	punct
5	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 other	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 replied	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pity	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 pity	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 pity	nsubj
11	pity	pity	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 replied	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
13	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
14	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pity	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 marry	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 marry	cc
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 and	punct
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 allow	mark
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 father	nmod:poss
21	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 allow	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 allow	aux
23	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 marry	advcl
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 allow	iobj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 allow	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 marry	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 marry	aux
28	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 pity	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 marry	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 make	cc
31	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	28 marry	conj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 man	det
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 make	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 man	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past		the other		tree rules
2	pity in a quote	present	I	the poor young man		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
3	allow a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	would	my father		me	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary
4	marry in a quote	would	I	man		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
5	make in a quote	infinitive	I not said here	a man of man		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset man=Product

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 20