The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 78
New Robe wondered what they were, and wished he could open each one and examine it.
Who acts: New Robe, Robe · What happens: wonder, wish, open, examine · To what, where: one, roof · 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 (New Robe, Robe), 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 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Robe | amod |
| 2 | Robe | Robe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wondered | nsubj |
| 3 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wondered | obj |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 were | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wished | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wished | cc |
| 9 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wondered | conj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 open | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 open | aux |
| 12 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wished | ccomp |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 one | det |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 open | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 examine | cc |
| 16 | examine | examine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 open | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 examine | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wondered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | past | New Robe | what obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wish | past | New Robe not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | open | could | Robe | each one | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme | ||||
| 4 | examine | infinitive | Robe not said here | roof | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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