The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 27
Pray for me; ask the Sun to help me.”
Who acts: you · What happens: pray, ask, help · To what, where: Sun, me
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), 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 | Pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 me | case |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Pray | obl |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 ask | punct |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Pray | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Sun | det |
| 7 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ask | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 help | mark |
| 9 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ask | xcomp |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 help | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pray | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pray | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | imperative | you not said here | for me | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | you not said here | the Sun | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent sun=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | help not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | me | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary |
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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