The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 109
You know the wide plains; lead me to my people, for my husband is killed, and I am lost.”
Who acts: You · What happens: know, lead, kill, lose · To what, where: wide plains, me, people, husband, I
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 (You), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 plains | det |
| 4 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 plains | amod |
| 5 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 know | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 lead | punct |
| 7 | lead | lead | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | parataxis |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 lead | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 people | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 people | nmod:poss |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lead | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 killed | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 killed | mark |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 husband | nmod:poss |
| 15 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 killed | aux:pass |
| 17 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 lead | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lost | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 lost | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 lost | nsubj |
| 21 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 lost | aux:pass |
| 22 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 killed | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | You | the wide plains | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer plain=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | lead | infinitive | me | my people | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to people=Destination | ||||
| 3 | kill | present · passive | my husband | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | lose | present · passive | I | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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