The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 34

Something seemed to tell him to push forward, and that somehow, in some way, he would be fortunate.

Who acts: Something, that · What happens: seem, tell, push forward, be · To what, where: Robe, way · 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 (Something, that), 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	Something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 tell	mark
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 seemed	xcomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 push	mark
7	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tell	advcl
8	forward	forward	ADV	_	7 push	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fortunate	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 fortunate	cc
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 fortunate	nsubj
12	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	21 fortunate	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 somehow	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 way	case
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 way	det
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fortunate	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 way	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 fortunate	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 fortunate	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 fortunate	cop
21	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 seemed	parataxis
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past	Something				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	Something not said here	Robe			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	push forward	to-infinitive	Something not said here			forward property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	is	would	that		some way	Robe nsubj; fortunate, somehow 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 34

The tree

Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 34