The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 134

She told them her story, and pointed to the coyote by her side, telling them how it had helped her, and begging them not to kill it.

Who acts: woman · What happens: tell, point, help, beg, not kill · To what, where: story, people, coyote · 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 (woman), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 story	nmod:poss
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pointed	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 pointed	cc
8	pointed	point	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 told	parataxis
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 coyote	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 coyote	det
11	coyote	coyote	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pointed	obl
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 side	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 side	nmod:poss
14	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pointed	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 telling	punct
16	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 told	parataxis
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 telling	iobj
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 helped	advmod
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 helped	nsubj:pass
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 helped	aux
21	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 telling	advcl
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 helped	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 begging	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 begging	cc
25	begging	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 told	ccomp
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 begging	obj
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 kill	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 kill	mark
29	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 begging	advcl
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 kill	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	woman	woman's story	people		tree rules
2	point	participle			the coyote	by woman's side	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to coyote=Recipient
3	tell speech: assert	gerund			people		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
4	help	past · perfect · passive		story		woman obj	tree rules
5	beg speech: request	gerund			people		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
6	not kill	to-infinitive		story			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 134

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Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 134