The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 11
If you have any little things you wish to send them, hurry and make them ready, so that I may take them.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: have, wish, send, hurry, make, take · To what, where: little things, things
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, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 have | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 hurry | advcl |
| 4 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 things | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 things | amod |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 wish | nsubj |
| 8 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 things | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 send | mark |
| 10 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wish | xcomp |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 send | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 13 | hurry | hurry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 make | cc |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 hurry | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 make | obj |
| 17 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 make | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 take | punct |
| 19 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 23 take | mark |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 so | fixed |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 take | nsubj |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 take | aux |
| 23 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 hurry | conj |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 take | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 hurry | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 hurry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have a condition, not said to happen | present | you | any little things | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | wish | present | you | any little things not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | send not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | things = thing | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hurry | imperative | you not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | make | infinitive | you not said here | things = thing | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | |||
| 6 | take | may | I | things = thing | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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