The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 104
“They have found me,” she said to herself, shivering with terror, “and when I move a knife will be thrust in my side.”
Who acts: Kutenais, pi, two, knife · What happens: find, say, shiver, move, be · To what, where: pi, side, thrust · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Little Friend Coyote. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kutenais, pi, two, knife), 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 | _ | 4 found | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 found | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | aux |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 found | iobj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 herself | case |
| 11 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shivering | punct |
| 13 | shivering | shiver | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | advcl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 terror | case |
| 15 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shivering | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 move | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 move | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 move | cc |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 move | advmod |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 move | nsubj |
| 21 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 shivering | parataxis |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 knife | det |
| 23 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 thrust | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 thrust | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 thrust | cop |
| 26 | thrust | thrust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 move | ccomp |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 side | case |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 side | nmod:poss |
| 29 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 move | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find in a quote | present · perfect | Kutenais = kutenai | pi | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | pi | pi | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | shiver | gerund | pi not said here | with terror | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | move in a quote | present | two | my side | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in side=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | future | a knife | thrust | tree rules |
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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