The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 119
If thirsty, she would tell him, and in a little while he would always take her to some water.
Who acts: pi, yé · What happens: tell, take · To what, where: yé, pi, little · 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 (pi, yé), 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 | _ | 2 thirsty | mark |
| 2 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tell | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 thirsty | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 tell | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 tell | aux |
| 6 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 tell | iobj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 take | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 take | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 little | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 little | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 take | obl |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 take | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 take | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 take | aux |
| 16 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 17 take | advmod |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 tell | conj |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 take | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 water | case |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 water | det |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 take | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | would | pi | yé | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | take | would | yé | pi | a little | to some water; always property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to water=Destination |
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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