The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 12

“I have some pretty moccasins for your father,” said Su-yé-sai-pi, “and a fine buckskin dress for your mother; but I am not going to send them.

Who acts: Su, yé · What happens: have, say, pi, not go, send · To what, where: pretty moccasins, moccasins · 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 (Su, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 moccasins	det
5	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 moccasins	amod
6	moccasins	moccasin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 father	case
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 moccasins	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	Su	Su	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	obj
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 Su	punct
15	yé	yé	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pi	nsubj
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 yé	punct
17	sai	sai	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pi	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 pi	punct
19	pi	pi	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 dress	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 dress	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 dress	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 dress	det
24	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 dress	amod
25	buckskin	buckskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 dress	compound
26	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pi	conj
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 mother	case
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 mother	nmod:poss
29	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 dress	nmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 going	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 going	cc
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 going	nsubj
33	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 going	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 going	advmod
35	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 said	advcl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 send	mark
37	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 going	xcomp
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 send	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	Su	some pretty moccasins	for your father	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moccasin=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	Su			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	pi		yé		a fine buckskin dress for your mother conj	tree rules
4	not go in a quote	present · progressive	Su			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	send in a quote	to-infinitive	Su not said here	moccasins = moccasin		vn confine-92-1 «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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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 12