The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 98
Before you go the old man will make you a present; he will give you your choice of all his medicines.
Who acts: you, old man, man · What happens: go, make, give, medicine · To what, where: present, you, choice
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, 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 3 go | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 give | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 make | aux |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | ccomp |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 make | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 present | det |
| 11 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 give | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 give | aux |
| 15 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 give | iobj |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 choice | nmod:poss |
| 18 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 give | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 medicines | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 medicines | det:predet |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 medicines | nmod:poss |
| 22 | medicines | medicine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 choice | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | you | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | make | future | the old man | a present | you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary present=Product | |||
| 3 | give | future | man | your choice of man's medicines | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient choice=Theme | |||
| 4 | medicine | man | nom medicine «cognition transitive»: poss=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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