The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 67
To be sure,” said the old man; “of course he is hungry: just give me a dish, and I will prepare some food for him.”
Who acts: old man, man, I · What happens: be, say, give, prepare · To what, where: dish, me, food · 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 (old man, man, 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 3 sure | mark |
| 2 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sure | cop |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sure | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 hungry | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 hungry | punct |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 hungry | case |
| 13 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 of | fixed |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hungry | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 hungry | cop |
| 16 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | ccomp |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 give | punct |
| 18 | just | just | ADV | _ | 19 give | advmod |
| 19 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sure | parataxis |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 give | iobj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 dish | det |
| 22 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 give | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 prepare | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 prepare | cc |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 prepare | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 prepare | aux |
| 27 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 give | conj |
| 28 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 food | det |
| 29 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 prepare | obj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 him | case |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 prepare | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 give | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | to-infinitive | sure property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the old man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | man | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give | infinitive | a dish | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient dish=Theme | ||||
| 5 | prepare | future | I | some food | for man | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent food=Product for he=Beneficiary |
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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