The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 29
“And if I return such a man that no one need be ashamed of me,” he asked, “will you be my wife?”
Who acts: man, one need, you · What happens: return, be, ask · To what, where: man, wife · 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, one need, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 return | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 return | cc |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 return | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 return | nsubj |
| 5 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 man | det:predet |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 return | obj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 ashamed | mark |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 need | det |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 need | compound |
| 12 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ashamed | nsubj |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 ashamed | cop |
| 14 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 return | advcl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 ashamed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 return | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 return | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 asked | nsubj |
| 20 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 wife | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 wife | punct |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 wife | aux |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 wife | nsubj |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 wife | cop |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 wife | nmod:poss |
| 27 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 asked | ccomp |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 27 wife | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 wife | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | man | such man | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | infinitive | no one need | of man; ashamed property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | future | you | my wife | my nmod:poss | 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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