The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 17
I did not like to ask you to make the trip, for the distance is great, and there is danger on the way.”
Who acts: I, distance, danger · What happens: not like, ask, make, be · To what, where: you, trip, way
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 (I, distance, danger), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 like | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 like | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 like | advmod |
| 4 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 ask | mark |
| 6 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 like | xcomp |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 ask | iobj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 make | mark |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ask | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 trip | det |
| 11 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 great | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 great | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 distance | det |
| 15 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 great | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 great | cop |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 make | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 is | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 is | cc |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 is | expl |
| 21 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 like | conj |
| 22 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 is | nsubj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 way | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 way | det |
| 25 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 is | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like | past · do-support | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | the trip | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trip=Product | ||||
| 4 | is | present | the distance | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | present | danger | the way; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on way=Location |
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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