The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 64
“Yes,” added his wife, “and no doubt the poor young man is hungry; he seems to be lean and pinched.”
Who acts: wife, doubt, man · What happens: add, be, seem, pinch · 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 (wife, doubt, 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 | _ | 5 added | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 added | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 5 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 added | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hungry | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 hungry | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 hungry | cc |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 doubt | det |
| 12 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hungry | nsubj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 14 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 15 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hungry | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 hungry | cop |
| 18 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wife | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 seems | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 seems | nsubj |
| 21 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 added | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 lean | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 lean | cop |
| 24 | lean | lean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 seems | xcomp |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 pinched | cc |
| 26 | pinched | pinch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 lean | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 seems | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | past | son's wife | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | no doubt | the poor young man nsubj; hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | seem in a quote | present | man | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | man not said here | lean property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | pinch in a quote | participle | man not said here | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: 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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