The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 62
One of my sons saw you creeping into your nest of grass, and I bade him invite you in.
Who acts: sons, One, I · What happens: see, creep, bade, invite in · To what, where: One, nest, son, you
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 (sons, One, I), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 saw | obl |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 sons | case |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 sons | nmod:poss |
| 4 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | creeping | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 saw | xcomp |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 nest | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 nest | nmod:poss |
| 10 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 creeping | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 grass | case |
| 12 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nest | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bade | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bade | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 bade | nsubj |
| 16 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bade | obj |
| 18 | invite | invite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 bade | xcomp |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 invite | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 invite | compound:prt |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | my sons | One | you obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | creep | gerund | One not said here | your nest of grass | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into nest=Destination | ||||
| 3 | bade | past | I | son | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | invite in | infinitive | I not said here | you | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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