The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 61
“You are welcome, my son,” said the old man—“welcome to the lodge of the Beaver Chief.
Who acts: You, old man · What happens: be, say · 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 (You, old man), 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 | _ | 4 welcome | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 welcome | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 welcome | cop |
| 4 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 son | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 welcome | vocative |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 welcome | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 welcome | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 welcome | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 welcome | punct |
| 16 | welcome | welcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 man | appos |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 lodge | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 lodge | det |
| 19 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 welcome | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Chief | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Chief | det |
| 22 | Beaver | Beaver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Chief | compound |
| 23 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 lodge | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | You | my son vocative; welcome property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the old man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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