The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 16
“No,” Front Wolf replied, “it is not that I do not love you; you may go with me if you insist on it.
Who acts: Front Wolf, journey, you · What happens: reply, not be, go, insist · To what, where: journey · 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 (Front Wolf, journey, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 Wolf | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 5 | Front | Front | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Wolf | compound |
| 6 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 love | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 love | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 love | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 love | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 love | advmod |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 love | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 love | nsubj |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 love | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 love | advmod |
| 17 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 replied | advcl |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 love | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 go | punct |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 go | nsubj |
| 21 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 go | aux |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 replied | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 me | case |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 go | obl |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 insist | mark |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 insist | nsubj |
| 27 | insist | insist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 go | advcl |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 insist | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Front Wolf | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present · do-support | journey | I nsubj; you obj; love property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | may | you | with Front Wolf = wolf | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with i=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | insist speech: other a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | journey | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
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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